New fad....the croaky voice.

This affliction/affectation has been around for several years. There is a name for it but cannot remember what it is. About 12 years ago someone I worked with had this croaky way of speaking, fascinated me at first. She speaks normally now!

Yes, its very prevalent around here, exactly as you describe it.
Annoying!

It's been around for years and is known as a Vocal Fry.
This strange beastie is most often to be found in young women who are soooo bored with life, wander around with their shoulders rounded and arms folded, treating their parents and other 'oldies' with total disdain

I watched a young woman sit and eat her meal with her arms folded inside her jacket, and one just reaching out a tiny bit to spear her food every now and then.
She had that voice too.

Laughing out loud Miss A at that image.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY

T Rex arms.

Damned annoying----as my mother would have sharply said," speak properly !"

There’s been threads about this before I haven’t noticed it round my way but then I do live in a more jeremy Kyle area

mmmm it can creep into those Jeremy areas.

It makes me want to smack them - and apparently that's not allowed!

Oldbatty thanks for the video .
At one time, wasn't there the opposite fashion, ending everything in a higher tone, like asking a question?

Yes, Fennel, a sort of faux Australian thing.

Watched the video and no never heard it here but it does seem to imply it’s about trying to sound posh so nah that’s not my neck of the woods ?

American women ( some) have a super turbo desert fry.
I hear them being interviewed on Radio 4 all the time.

Well not ALL the time, just when they are on radio 4. and I am listening.

I woud enjoy a super turbot fry ( with chips) is the turbo fry similar to this?
Never heard of this phenomena of a croaky voice ( are we talking Fenella Fielding ?)
There used to be a teenage fashion of hiding the hands in very long sleeved jumpers, these fads come and go.

lemon
I wanted Fenella Fielding's voice, it was glorious!
The 'Fry' isn't so much croaky/husky as croaky/whine.

Ooooh, so that's what it is ! It's been driving me nuts for ages but I didn't know how to describe it! You are right lemongrove, these strange fads come and go but they can be soooo irritating. I remember in the mid eighties working at a youth club and the teenage girls started wearing their cardigans falling off the shoulder. Some would suddenly develop a funny walk, as though they'd had an embarrasing accident - but they apparently thought it looked cool. Not cool at all - just daft! (But then that weird hairstyle I had at 13 must have looked pretty daft too!)

My mother in law called it ‘slurping’ Willow. In our house it was accompanied by cupboard doors banging and the phrase..’Haven’t you bought ANY crisps ‘

My dil speaks with vocal fry. She's Californian and it's just part of how they speak.

Your mention of cardigans, Willow, reminded me of that 80's trend for women to have the collars of their shirts/blouses sticking up round their necks, like a ruff, instead of folded double as normal.

You never see that nowadays so I suppose it's due to return to fashion soon!

Ooh yes, I remember that. I also remember my older sister in the fifties turning her cardigan back to front, so that the buttons were down the back. I still do that now sometimes!

Is it a special one with very long sleeves that tie at the front?

My granddaughter! 12 years old and drawls like, yeah, like, aaaallll the time (insert upward inflection), denoting aaaaa "I'm talking to you but it's too much effort to speak right now" (roll eyes) kind of thing. Yah.