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Miss Manners: Can a guest reprimand a dog in its own house? Plus: A stranger lent me an item I needed. What is the appropriate token of thanks?
We’re only allowed to buy our grandchild gifts from a strictly curated list and it’s taken the joy out of it; Miss Manners pushes back on cancer as a “war.” ...
Miss Manners: How can I work with these people now that I know they tattle on me? My boss let me know they’ve been reporting my arrivals and departures ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Should a daughter spend Father’s Day with her husband or her father? I haven’t seen my daughter on Father’s Day since she got married 18 years ago. Her husband demands to ...
A houseguest thinks he was put up in a bedroom with a ghost; a mother-of-the-bride is enraged after the maid-of-honor brought an uninvited guest to the wedding.
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a women saying she gets rude questions about her clothes at work.
Brilliant people desperately want to say these 11 phrases — but can't — because they have manners. Even so, taking the time to think about and express these things privately can be really ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I bought a drink at a coffee shop that came to $4.22 with tax. I was presented with three tip options: $1, $2 or $3 — 25%, 50% or 75%, respectively. Since there weren’t any ...
Miss Manners: How do I politely bow out of posing for photos? How does this letter writer avoid group photos that inevitably get posted online?
There’s a uniting theme when it comes to manners in Australia: in Australian English, good manners centre on honouring personal autonomy, egalitarianism and not appearing to tell people what to do.
Many people are raised with good etiquette, but sometimes that's not always the case. Here are 10 phrases people use when they weren't raised with good manners.
Manners are simply just the way we do things. They have become pretty well accepted as the way to behave. Another way to conceptualize manners is to think of them as ways to be considerate of ...