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That is really cool and awesome. Also perfect for the gaming setup with number row.

I was not planning to enter this conversation, but this post contains many interesting thoughts and points. I grew up in a house with a foyer (with an "r") and never heard any other pronunciation or knew that it was a French word, probably until I went off to college. To me, when a foreign word has been assimilated into (American) English it can, and probably should, take on the (American) English pronunciation. 

Interesting. I grew up hearing the exact opposite. I had never heard anyone pronounce "foyer" with an "er" instead of "ay" until a couple years ago; although, I admit it wasn't a terribly common word in my lexicon. To me, it sounds like someone pronouncing the 't' in "buffet" or "fillet/filet".

Tangentially related, as I understand it, German has a few load words from French, and they retain pronunciations approximating French. Examples are "Friseur" (hair stylist), "Chance" (meaning chance, but pronounced more like "shons"), and "Restaurant" (meaning restaurant, but pronounced more like "re-stoh-rohng" [last syllable is nasal]), whose pronunciations do sound a bit out of place in a stream of German.

Merry-Mary-marry is a funny one, I strive to differentiate these but "Mary" ends up slightly closer to "merry" than "marry" when it comes out of my mouth.

Vowels are hard. I could hear the difference when listening to the video describing it, but I have a hard time remembering the distinctions.

And, of course, there is the capital of Ukraine. Most of us probably grew up with KEY-ev, but when the war started we learned that is the Russian pronunciation. I read numerous articles stating that the word has more than one syllable but less than 2 syllables - so that there is one of those tiny beats before the "v". But somehow many (most?) Americans simply cannot hear the subtlety and say one syllable KEEEV with a hard accent on the long "E" in the middle.

I'll have to look into this again because I *think* I hear the subtle difference, but I'm not sure I'm reproducing it accurately.

Not related to pronunciation: one oddity I remember in the news was the push to call it "Ukraine" instead of "The Ukraine" because the latter is seen as pro-Russia, even though neither country has a definite article. This Reddit post clarifies it, but it still seems a little weird to me.

I recently received my R4 its a solid feeling board overall but it has its problems. For one its a huge PITA to open, and nearly impossible to open without slightly damaging the case (might be skill issue lol). The domes inside are weirdly grippy like sticky tack, typing they feel exactly the same as every other oem dome. The dome strips (1-4) are pitted on the bottom, something Ive never seen before while the dome sheets are pristine, it could be that their molds are getting worn out.

Techbeezin did a great teardown and review over on KT if anyone is interested: https://www.keebtalk.com/t/realforce-r4-r4hd11-teardown/23658