Uncle laugh
My girlfriend Roxana uses the term “uncle laugh” to describe what I’ve heard clinically designated as a “glottal wheeze” although I can’t trace the source to where I’ve heard this; a laugh characterized by the sound produced when driving the voice sharply through the cartilaginous glottis, between the arytenoid cartileges, and not between the vocal chords and which sounds like it could only have been made by an uncle.
In the past few hours, as she’s sat yards away working on her project and I’ve sat editing an episode of You Look Nice Today, she’s endured probably not less than a dozen or so hearty uncle laughs from me, who wears headphones, depriving her of the source of said avuncular eruption. A dozen times, listening to the raw hilarity of my friends Scott and Merlin, I’ve burst out through my glottis. And why not. For nearly two years, I’ve been a proud uncle.
