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Manners Across the Pond: What Brits and Americans Get Right (and Wrong!), According to an Etiquette Expert
How Brits and Americans differ in key social moments Etiquette expert William Hanson breaks down key differences between ...
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Table manners aren't dying. They are changing, though
In “Table Manners: A Casualty of Changing Times,” writer William R. Greer argued that general manners had largely been lost on the upcoming generation of working professionals, an opinion ...
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Miss Manners: Should friends sit across the table from each other, or side by side?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting at a table that can accommodate one person on each side, what is the best way for two friends ...
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Elbows on the Table: Why Is It Considered Rude?
“Table manners prevented us from leaving our space ... author of Sorry! The English and Their Manners. “It embodies two ideas: that at mealtime, one shouldn’t do anything that inconveniences ...
Miss Manners: Do I sit across from my friend at a table for dinner or side-by-side?
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to an inquiry on the best seating arrangement for ...
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Miss Manners: Is it rude to ask for a different table in a restaurant?
Dear Miss Manners: When is it acceptable to ask for a different table when being seated at a restaurant? My husband and I have a favorite restaurant, which does not take reservations. In the past ...
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Miss Manners: Friends talk about parties I wasn’t invited to around me
Other things, such as table manners, I let go, hoping that he would pick them up by observation, and if not, that I could teach him in the future. Well … the future is here! He is a punctual ...
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Miss Manners: Managing differences in table manners with in-laws
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband’s father has poor table manners, or at least I think he does! He is 95, and the family doesn’t think there is anything wrong. When we go out to a restaurant ...