Pssst... KyleKat, the second word Dave refers to is "off." "Fuff" is basically a portmanteau word for a US expression that people in the UK render as "sod off."

Well, they are building a "Grand Lux Cafe" not too far from our corporate HQ in Houston.

I call it "the at sign" or "the at."

Slightly off topic... many people in the US call this # the "pound sign." This causes people from the UK to look around in vain for their national currency symbol.

In this case, write "Lux's."

"How manyth..."

Love it, love it. It is utterly wrong and utterly right at the same time.

My ear tells me:

"Let's begin on [not "at" or "from"] page 10."

"Let's begin at [not "on," but "from" is acceptable] the key change, measure 152." (directions to a musical ensemble)

"Let's begin from ["at" OK, "on" not OK] the scene where she kisses him for the first time." (theater)

I meant to also post the appropriate paragraph from the link posted below, in case it went down:

"The Latin plural of "curriculum vitae" is "curricula vitae". Some people who know a little Latin think it should be "curricula vitarum" (since _vitae_ means "of a life" and _vitarum_ means "of lives"); but to an ancient Roman, "curricula vitarum" would suggest that each document described more than one life. This is a feature of the Latin genitive of content, which differs in this regard from the more common Latin genitive of possession."

Nope.

http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifplrlsltngrkwrds.shtml

No, I've heard it most often as "when," too. It must derive from the "where" version. I work for a large (multinational) organization, too.

The way "when the rubber hits the road" is used is to mean the same thing as "when the chips are down" or "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." In other words, "the crucial moment of action."

pardon the choppy style. Four fifths of my brain is attending exclusively to Beethoven's Eighth, and eight ninths of the rest to looking out for the boss...

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