It is an "error", but it applies almost exclusively to speech, to pronunciation; very rarely and by extension to writing. It is not a synonym for mistake, let alone "fatal". It comes from the French fourcher ("to get tangled, to get stuck [like noodles on a fork]"). See furcia , saraza , gazapo ( error ) , errata , lapsus linguae .
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