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#1 2006-01-11 13:38:35

psvensson
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Registered: 2006-01-11
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Faux pax for faux pas

Examples: http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10921-0-10 … start=-270

http://www.citypaper.net/forums/index.p … readid=612

Some confusion in New Zealand (http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/011639.html):

I may be wrong but faux pax is probably the plural of faux pas
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Perhaps the other way around – Faux pax is singular, faux pas is plural. My French is not that great.

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