You can cross your fingers and all your toes during a data center migration.

You can knock on wood, pluck a dozen four-leaf clovers, or look to your lucky stars for a successful office expansion.

You could hold your breath, shut your eyes, and say all the world wishes to help avoid cyber attacks.

But none of that truly helps you.

Because next level moments need the next level network,

with the security, reliability, and expertise to take your business

further, AT&T business, the network more businesses are choosing.

You're listening to Away with Words to show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

When readers who care about grammar and style write letters to the New Yorker magazine,

there's one thing that they complain about more than anything else.

Can you guess what it is?

Harvard, Oxford, comma.

The two dots over the O.

Yes, yes, the diarousous.

Diarous, yes.

Fancy.

It's a diacritical mark that's over the vowel, the second of two vowels that are bumping up

against each other.

So in words like re-elect or reenact or dias or cooperate so you don't mistake them for

Cooperate or something like that. I mean who needs that right? Well kind of

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