Dear Miss Manners • Why must one say “please” with “May I have a glass of water?” It sounds like begging; it is begging. If I said “pretty please,” you’d know that was begging.
Miss Manners, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Living
Mon, 05/02/2016 - 10:00pm
Dear Miss Manners • Why must one say “please” with “May I have a glass of water?” It sounds like begging; it is begging. If I said “pretty please,” you’d know that was begging.