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How Table Manners as We Know Them Were a Renaissance Invention
At first, Hamlet and the planets seem far removed from table manners ... that included a study of table manners. De Civilitate morum puerilium (A Handbook on Good Manners for Children) rapidly ...
Miss Manners: Is it bad manners to tell a woman she looks young for her age?
Miss Manners is aware that the society considers it an embarrassment to grow older, and therefore most people are flattered ...
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The table manners under threat from Gen Z – and why we shouldn’t give them up
A separate poll by Censuswide showed 60 per cent of those between 12 and 27 thought old-fashioned table manners were ... to their lives.” Are good manners a thing of the past?
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Miss Manners: What’s the most polite way to set a dinner table when one guest will not be eating any food?
GENTLE READER: Setting the table in full would be Miss Manners’ choice, to avoid forcing your friend to respond to others exclaiming, “You don’t have a plate.” But she wonders why ...