These are the top 10 most read Miss Manners columns of 2025: 10: Shop owner is in the business of selling gifts. Do they need ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I subscribe to the belief that, at a sit-down meal, it’s correct to wait until all guests have received their food before you begin to eat. Miss Manners: Maybe I should pretend I ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband of four years has two adult, financially stable sons. One is married with two children; the other is single. We drive 3,300 miles round-trip twice a year for the children ...

It seems like people give gifts with the sole purpose of being appreciated. This seems contrary to the whole idea of giving a ...

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Gifts, to me, are not a chore and not an obligation. If I get a thank-you card, it is nice, but I do not see any obligation ...

GENTLE READER: It was to avoid the knives being used to attack fellow diners -- or at least to lessen that possibility.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to tastefully arranging a Ph.D. and four other ...

GENTLE READER: You can use the title “Dr.” and put the others below -- but please assure Miss Manners that this is intended ...

But if you forget, or run into a similar problem with someone else — and phone-passing has become a widespread nuisance of ...