Many words with a short Aa vowel, and a -y suffix, can be stroked by using the AEae chord. Other examples: carry (KAERkaer), marry (PHAERmaer), party (PAERTpaert), happy (HAEPhaep)
To remember this brief style, you can read the E as a long E syllable, i.e. man-E, part-E, hap-E.