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Which brings up another general observation. Sometimes one may find good sites
on the web with bad spellings. I recently was looking for examples of persons
believing that the King James Bible was infallible. I found out I got better
results when considering it 'infallable.
--V. K.
Quoting Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]>:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Since our students would probably check the web for acceptability in such
> matters, a google search shows lots of uses of "fauxpas" in various
> connections
> (site names, user names, product lines, etc. -- with lots of German sites)
> and
> some uses of "faux-pas" (although hard to locate in google, which doesn't
> recognize the hyphen as such), along with more "normal" usage. Normative
> linguists may take it as a warning!?
>
> Bob
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> > As a French, trying to speak, read and write French better than English, I
> > have never found "faux pas" written in an hyphenated form ("faux-pas") ;
> but
> > we have "faux-bourdon" (in English "fauxbourdon"), "faux-filet"
> (sirloin),
> > "faux-fuyant" (subterfuge), and "faux-semblant" (pretence, sham).
> >
> > Doctus cum libro, thanks to dictionnaries (the French Robert and the
> English
> > Harrap).
> >
> > Best
> > ANDRE-YVES BOURGES
> >
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> > hyphenated form ("faux-pas") ; but we have "faux-bourdon" (in English=20
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