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GENTLE READER: Traditional snobbery. Time was when snobbish Americans believed that French customs were more elegant than ...

Maybe it’s because I took Spanish in high school instead of French, but what’s with “RSVP”? People say “Please RSVP” but also ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Maybe it’s because I took Spanish in high school instead of French, but what’s with “RSVP”? People say ...

A writer's dilemma: balancing efficiency with agency in a post-AI world, wondering what we are losing sight of ...

A soon to be parent is limiting their time around their mother-in-law after she made overtly negative remarks following their ...

Mind you, Miss Manners is not excusing your mother-in-law. She made hurtful remarks. But that is what many people do in the ...

Kendrick Lamar, 37, swept the 2025 Grammy Awards as the Compton native's diss track about the Canadian rapper won five gongs ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

My husband and I have been trying to conceive a child for some time. Our first pregnancy ended at seven weeks in a miscarriage, which started during a visit to my mother-in-law’ s home. She had not ...

A pre- can be redundant because the context has already made itself obvious some other way. A retailer doesn’t need to label a loaf of bread “presliced.” The simple fact that it’s available for ...