Scat Cat - 26 October 2015
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
A Way with Words
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🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can cross your fingers and all your toes during a data center migration. |
| 0:04.0 | You can knock on wood, pluck a dozen four-leaf clovers, or look to your lucky stars for a successful office expansion. |
| 0:10.0 | You could hold your breath, shut your eyes, and say all the world wishes to help avoid cyber attacks. |
| 0:15.0 | But none of that truly helps you. |
| 0:18.0 | Because next level moments need the next level network, |
| 0:21.0 | with the security, reliability, and expertise to take your business |
| 0:24.2 | further. AT&T Business, the network more businesses are choosing. |
| 0:29.4 | You're listening to Away with Words to show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:34.3 | And I'm Martha Barnett and the emails about the word dilemma are still coming in. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh boy, how many years running is this? |
| 0:40.6 | Oh man, so many. |
| 0:42.4 | We have this discussion right about dilemma several times yes and there were a lot of |
| 0:46.8 | people who spell the word dilemma right not m m m m in in the middle but mn as a Nancy or not right. |
| 0:55.0 | Not right. |
| 0:56.0 | Not right. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, and we've had a strong suspicion all along that there's a Catholic connection. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah, we did. |
| 1:01.2 | And that's what we keep hearing. We heard from Hazel |
| 1:03.7 | Hunt singer in Kildare, North Dakota, who said she's always been an excellent |
| 1:07.8 | speller, but she's always spelled the word with an n. And she said I was |
| 1:11.5 | baffled to learn as an adult with spell check that I had been |
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