GENTLE READER: The correct form is, “We respectfully ask (or decline),” which Miss Manners would normally agree is silly, ...

So the short answer is: Keep offering seats to ladies if you don’t mind standing; if you do mind, then stay seated. Dear Miss ...

Now that he’s well beyond retirement age, does the mannerly letter writer still have to give up his seat on public ...

People who have good manners at restaurants never order while talking on the phone simultaneously. It's considered rude to ...

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 ...

We asked travel experts, including etiquette gurus and a serving flight attendant, to unveil the protocol for using cabin stowage bins ...

Of course not. A private club is accustomed to hosting a new assortment of guests every day, including those unfamiliar with the customs of "proper golf etiquette." The important part is to be ...

We don’t know how, and it’s awfully short notice for us, who are technologically challenged. (BIL works in the computer industry.) What are our polite options?

Our co-founder and editor, Irene Nolan, had a tradition of posting an annual list of beach etiquette guidelines for new visitors around the first few weeks of summer. First published decades ago when ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a friend who, when she gets a haircut and I don’t acknowledge it, brings that to my attention. It’s never attractive, and I know she’s not going to keep up with it.