Kim Kardashian is one of the most well-known culprits of vocal fry. On a 2013 appearance on Conan, American actress Lake Bell said vocal fry was "festering through this great nation and it could be our demise". In the same way some people latched onto accents that didn't belong to them, vocal fry could unconsciously alter speech. Other suggestions for the cause of vocal fry were attempts to sound more confident or authoritive, he said. It found Māori speakers had more vocal fry than Pākehā, women had more vocal fry than men, and older speakers had more vocal fry than younger speakers.

Source: Stuff November 29, 2018 12:56 UTC