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In between closing pop-windows I kept wandering what the hell a fox-pass was. And then it me, in the eye. So I washed it off, and then understood that he meant "Faux-pas", which is pronounced "Fo-pa".
Believe he was doing that on purpose, making fun of pretentious non-Francophones who try to fancy up their vocabulary with mispronounced and inappropriate faux-French usage. (See what I did there?
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A friend of mine and I use the pronunciation "fox paw", as in "'At thar was a big ol' fox paw, I tell you whut," when we do the same thing. It's analogous to you, for example, mimicking a Texas accent to mock stupid people.