{"id":2699,"date":"2014-12-04T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2014-12-11T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T07:38:57","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-faux-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Faux Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2701\" alt=\"Faux-Pas\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas-190x95.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas-280x140.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas-445x222.jpg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Faux-Pas.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">What does <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">faux pas<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\\\u02c8f\u014d-\u02ccp\u00e4, f\u014d-\u02c8\\<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n[foh pah]\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The expression faux pas comes from France, where it means &#8220;false step&#8221;, &#8220;misstep&#8221; (in a physical as well as a figurative sense). It has been used in English for over 300 years. Synonyms in English include gaffe and (social) blunder.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arriving too early would be a serious <em>faux pas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to an oft-told story, the queen set a guest at ease about a <em>faux pas<\/em> by politely imitating it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does faux pas mean? It&#8217;s a slip or blunder &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1015,1019,982,182,1017,1013,355,1016,476,166,1018,1014],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-blunder","tag-conduct","tag-december-2014","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-etiquette","tag-faux-pas","tag-france","tag-gaffe","tag-interesting-word","tag-learn","tag-manners","tag-social-mistake","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}