Subj : to pull the door to against
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Tue Dec 24 2019 18:09:28

Hi! Alexander,

On 12/24/2019 04:30 PM, you wrote:

 AK> I see, but in Russia, in such cases, we often ask the interlocutor, "Now
 AK> say it again in a human way." ;)

They must be prize-winning tongue-twisters  ;)

 AK> By the way, how should I pronounce the name "Gatsby"? Should the last
 AK> sound be [ai] or [ee]?  No questions if he were Gatsbe. Is there any rule?

The final sound is [ee].

I don't recall having learned rules that I can recall.  I and my classmates at 
the time (late 1950s) learned the black & blue knuckle way, by rote.  Either we 
repeated a method correctly or we were rewarded with a smack to the knuckles 
(till black & blue).

Cheers,
Paul.

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