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

[Jonathan Lighter]

No, not the sound. The article!

I called attention to x-treem creaky voice on _The Bad Girls Club_ a year ago.

JL



On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> I like it.
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> The *sound*, right? 'Cause the *name" bites the big one! Who has the
> PR on this one?
>
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> -Wilson
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