GENTLE READER: Useful though the lesson may have proved, Miss Manners reminds you that correcting another person’s manners is, as a rule, rude.

Despite our tendency to assume people are behaving badly because they are rude or selfish, many of these things they do are difficult to keep under control, leaving people with ADHD struggling with ...

And good guests, for their part, never wanted to put their hosts to unnecessary trouble. In your case, Miss Manners has no hesitation in recommending you provide alternatives for the vegetarian ...

And good guests, for their part, never wanted to put their hosts to unnecessary trouble. In your case, Miss Manners has no hesitation in recommending you provide alternatives for the vegetarian ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... are your dogs’ names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?

Miss Manners agrees that no one should be approaching your dogs without your permission. If you are willing to make an introduction, you could sidestep the name-as-command issue by giving the dogs ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... are your dogs’ names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... are your dogs’ names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... what are your dogs' names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... what are your dogs' names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?

with the two of them on leashes.Miss Manners: The old-timers insist on their strange pronunciations for streets The new form of interaction, which puzzles me, involves a stranger seeing me on the ...

Dear Miss Manners ... are your dogs’ names?” seems to have become terribly common, seemingly overnight. Is there some new social form in which this is considered good behavior?