On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Male country singers like to creak - vocal fry. Where did the term vocal > fry come from? Maybe, from voice pedagogy circles (singing). They also use the term 'glottal fry' ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org