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Miss Manners: How long am I expected to wait for someone to accept an invitation?
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...
Miss Manners: How do I turn away good friends who show up when they aren’t invited?
That would indeed stretch the food. But assuming they are separate: ...
Miss Manners: What’s the rule about giving an ultimatum to a friend?
Miss Manners agrees that ultimatums with friends can be awkward, but in this case, a time limit would have been helpful. Or ...
Dear Miss Manners: How can I deal with uninvited guests?
That would indeed stretch the food. But assuming they are separate: ...
Miss Manners: Uninvited people keep showing up to my house
Uninvited neighbors keep showing up to the letter writer’s gatherings. Dear Miss Manners: How can I politely invite someone ...
Des Houghton: There’s a vendetta against private schools
They understand ambition – and competition. If the family has a trust fund to draw on, good for them, because someone at some ...
Miss Manners: Is using a courtesy title in a friendly business correspondence unnecessarily formal?
His clients are professionals between the ages of 30 and 90. I believe that most of them were raised during a time of proper ...
Miss Manners: I tried being nice to colleagues, but they ignored me
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to handling awkward social situations when your ...
Miss Manners: Deliberately ignoring someone speaking to you is a high insult. But what can be done about it?
GENTLE READER: Deliberately ignoring someone who is speaking to you is a high insult, one that is tantamount to severing ...
Miss Manners: The women at work ignored me whenever I spoke. What should I have done?
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Miss Manners: Should names on envelopes be casual, or very proper?
I believe that the envelopes should be addressed using a title. I have been informed by my husband that omitting it is friendlier.
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Miss Manners: Deliberately ignoring someone is a big insult
GENTLE READER: Deliberately ignoring someone who is speaking to you is a high insult, one that is tantamount to severing relations. For that very reason, it is not something you should strain to see ...