not genuine or real

I was just thinking about the word faux. Here's the definition:
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; it's real synthetic fur"



Synonyms: fake, false, imitation, simulated
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If I'm remembering right, you never heard this word until sometime in the late 80s or so (at least here in north Mississippi but we are a little behind). We just used the words we already had like fake or false. No fancy French words.

"Grandpaw left his false teeth on the back of the commode again!" not "Grandpaw left his faux teeth on the back of the commode again!" You'd just sound like a dumb ass.

I'm thinking somebody was trying to pass something off as "not fake" so they called it "faux" just to sound good. It caught on with a bunch of snotty folks and here we are. Got a word we don't need that is spelled about a screwed up as you can get. If you read my rules (see "english sux" post), it'd be spelled "foe", least then it wouldn't look so goofy. Can't we just leave well-enough alone and keep it simple. You remember this:

Ford Country Squire Wagon, we had one in '73. It's a faux SUV with real faux wood-grained paneling.