Jayne Withers teaches classes about dining etiquette to both children and adults in Florida. She learned about etiquette while studying at Cambridge University. The most common mistakes she sees are ...

The thought of all the guys at a dinner table scrambling to stand just because I'm getting up to go to the ladies' room strikes me as … funny. But at one point in recent history, it would have been a ...

A CENTURY AGO, Emily Post made manners popular. Her bestselling book, “Etiquette” (1922), framed the “fundamentals of good behaviour” as fashionable rather than fusty; she offered practical advice ...

Purdue’s Office of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars has designed a free etiquette course to help graduate and doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers feel more confident in social ...

The abrupt abandonment of handshakes and hugs. An expansion of personal space in public to six feet. And detailed conversations preceding any social plans about who else was invited and what risky ...

Q: A great discussion occurred this week as my husband and I and another couple walked a brief distance from a parking lot to the restaurant where we had reservations for dinner. The discussion was as ...

It might be time for a new, or maybe a “reimagined,” disability etiquette. With all the progress we have made on disability rights and inclusion, and with disabled people more visible and heard than ...

"Blow not your broth at Table," George Washington wrote in an early school exercise on civility. And "bedew no mans face with your Spittle." Wise man. Other etiquette rules hold up less well over time ...

While there’s plenty of benefits to regularly hitting the gym — both physically and mentally — it’s not the most welcoming place, especially for newbies. Between the heavy plates, complicated machines ...

On a recent afternoon, Mariah Grumet, an etiquette coach, and Kate McKinnon, the “S.N.L.” alum and actress (hi, Weird Barbie!)—whose middlegrade novel, “The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for ...

Speaking on the telephone is an essential skill in both everyday life and business. Even while technology has continued to develop, with voice over internet protocol (VoIP) largely displacing ...