DEAR MISS MANNERS: We are often invited to fundraisers by a couple in our circle of friends. They purchase a table or a package of tickets, which pays for our admission. Still, as these are ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an accent nerd, especially about accents from Great Britain and its current and former colonies. I like to guess where people are from once I’ve heard them speak (not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an accent nerd, especially about accents from Great Britain and its current and former colonies. I like to guess where people are from once I’ve heard them speak (not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an accent nerd, especially about accents from Great Britain and its current and former colonies. I like to guess where people are from once I’ve heard them speak (not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an accent nerd, especially about accents from Great Britain and its current and former colonies. I like to guess where people are from once I’ve heard them speak (not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was taken out to dinner in a town where I was giving a talk. My hostess parked her car using her late husband’s disability parking tag, which had a few months left on it ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When is it acceptable to specify the ending time of an event? Generally, if I am inviting guests for dinner, I ask them to please arrive at a certain time, with no ending time ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We are holding a celebration of life for my 28-year-old son at an airplane hangar. I’m saying “Wear anything!” because we want it to be about celebrating his life more ...

One morning, a man walking his large pit bull mix allowed ... Which makes me wonder: What happened to manners? We want to hear from you: Please take our survey on manners. Are they worse today?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: How do I gently remind a lovely young neighbor, in the apartment next door, that leaving her keys in the door overnight is not a safe thing to do? I see them left in her door ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Which is ruder: being ignored by someone who is constantly on their cellular telephone, or interrupting that person with a conversation without saying “excuse me”?