If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Lately it has seemed that the phrases “We’re pregnant” and “They’re pregnant” have been subsumed into acceptable usage.

If I open my umbrella, then the rain that hits it falls onto the people next to me, most of whom do not have umbrellas.

GENTLE READER: While she agrees that neither pretending not to hear nor running and hiding are good solutions, Miss Manners ...

GENTLE READER: Far in the past. Big white dresses have been the uniform for all brides for decades now. Whether previously ...

GENTLE READER: Far in the past. Big white dresses have been the uniform for all brides for decades now. Whether previously ...

A reader doesn’t think her friend has the right to wear a white dress to her third wedding; a generous relative is giving up ...

I have a close friend who is getting married, for the third time, later this year. In between her marriages, she has had lengthy relationships with other men. Miss Manners is not sorry.

GENTLE READER: Far in the past. Big white dresses have been the uniform for all brides for decades now. Whether previously ...

Letter writer feels their friend is treating her third wedding like it’s her first. Dear Miss Manners: I have a close friend who is getting married, for the third time, later this year. In between her ...

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Advice columnist Judith Martin, with her tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette, always has ...