Vocal fry, or glottal fry, is the lowest voice register—below falsetto, head, and chest voices—and is characterized by a low-frequency rattling or frying sound. Although it feels like vocal ...

Stephen Fry has lifted the lid on his embarrassing vocal skills as he joined actress Aimee Lou Wood, Joanne McNally and Yungblud on The Jonathan Ross Show.

I'm not alone. Women are criticised every day for the way they speak. And since terms like upspeak and vocal fry first entered the popular lexicon a few years ago, it's only gotten worse.