My understanding this is a recent spoken language innovation. I’m not sure if it’s gendered, but it’s very common. I would never correct it, I think it’s fairly

My understanding this is a recent spoken language innovation. I’m not sure if it’s gendered, but it’s very common. I would never correct it, I think it’s fairly engrained https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal EDIT: from the wiki article > Because HRT has been popularized as "Valley Girl Speak", it has acquired an almost exclusively feminine gender connotation. Studies confirm that more women use HRT than men.[18] Linguist Thomas J. Linneman contends, "The more successful a man is, the less likely he is to use HRT; the more successful a woman is, the more likely she is to use uptalk".