Dear Miss Manners • What is the protocol for addressing a U.S. citizen by a title they obtained through marriage, e.g., “countess” or “princess”?
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Dear Miss Manners • I was at a wedding for which I drove a total of 19 hours there and back, only to find the following line on the back of th…
Dear Miss Manners • The U.S. elections and my quadrennial quandary draw closer. I am an expatriate, living where "communist" is a political po…
Dear Miss Manners • My mother is a member of the Facebook community, where she often goes in search of people from her past. She has found man…
Dear Miss Manners • What is a polite way to answer a direct solicitation for money by a candidate for political office, when one respects the …
Dear Miss Manners • What are the rules for showing cleavage?
Dear Miss Manners • After seeing so many men keeping their jackets buttoned when standing, sitting to chat, forecasting weather, playing a mus…
Dear Miss Manners • I have been told that one must never wear pearls after 5 p.m. I have a lovely string of pearls that I'd love to wear for a…
Dear Miss Manners • In the past few weeks I asked a girl to the homecoming dance and we have kissed. A couple of days ago, her best friend inf…
Dear Miss Manners • When family, friends and acquaintances find out that I do not work outside the home, I am frequently asked what I do all d…
Dear Miss Manners • I had back surgery several months ago, and my recovery is expected to be long. I have needed to use a walker and now a cane.
Dear Miss Manners • When I became engaged, the women of my religious institution (my mother's contemporaries) held a shower for me, for which …
What is the social pay scale? How much will it cost you if someone you know gives birth, graduates, marries or dies?
Dear Miss Manners • I am a father of three, with No. 4 on the way. This time, my wife and I decided to find out the sex of the baby before the…
Dear Miss Manners • I was on a flight where my bag was too big to fit into the overhead bin, but fit under the seat on the aisle. I was sittin…
Dear Miss Manners • I am a single gay man in my early 60s. Three years ago, my niece came out to as a lesbian. One year later, she married her…
Dear Miss Manners • Is it rude to ask the parent of the child who had an overnight party why your son/daughter was not invited?
Dear Miss Manners • How long after a tragedy, such as the shootings in Aurora, Colo., is it appropriate to begin a discussion on the root caus…
Dear Miss Manners • I attended a dinner party at which the tablecloth was a unique, delicate and lovely textile that the hostess had picked up…
Dear Miss Manners • After having lunch with a so-called friend, she proceeded to tell me how negative I was and how it drags her down.
Dear Miss Manners • What do you say to a niece who just had a baby? She is 17 years old and unwed.
Dear Miss Manners • Why do people feel that I have a need to know what is going on in either their or their spouses' underwear?!
Dear Miss Manners • It has become so frequent as to be nearly ubiquitous these days that whenever I am called upon to pass time in a doctor's …
Dear Miss Manners • Alas, once again I have been the victim of the cellphone.
Dear Miss Manners • I just received an invitation to a child's 1-year-old birthday party. While I was pleased to be invited, the invitation ad…