If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case it will drip only onto your own shoulders. But you would be excused for ...

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.

I respond in a cordial, or at least a civil, way to friends and neighbors who ask me questions about my garden while I am ...

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

On occasion, it will start raining when I am in a crowd — at the ballpark, for example, or waiting for the light to change on ...

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

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 ...