The Word of the Day podcast for July 27th.
Not every sale happens at the register.
Before AT&T Business Wireless, checking out customers on our mobile POS systems took too long.
Basically a staring contest where everyone loses.
It's crazy what people will say during an awkward silence.
Now transactions are done before the silence takes hold.
That means I can focus on the task at hand and make an extra sale or two.
Sometimes I do miss the bonding time.
Sometimes.
AT&T Business Wireless.
Connecting changes everything.
Today's word is parochial, spelled P-A-R-O-C-H-I-A-L.
Parochial is an adjective.
It's a formal word that's usually used in a disapproving way to describe something
that is limited in range or scope as to a narrow region or area.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Literary Hub.
The 21st century American university, is one of the great achievements of modern civilization,
and the destruction of the relationship between higher education, the federal government,
and the business community would set America back to a parochial era that we left a long time ago.
While it's far from a given that small towns foster narrow-mindedness,