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   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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