" 'Vocal Fry' Creeping into U.S. Speech"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> "these 'low, creaky vibrations' have been common since forever"

"Truer words were never spoken."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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