On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:02:02 +1000, John J > wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:33:10 -0500, Alan Holbrook >
> wrote:
>
> >Metspitzer > wrote in
> :
> >
> >> I was taught not too put my elbows on the table in a restaurant.
> >Since
> >> it is a very comfortable position, I ignore my manners. When
> >that
> >> happens, I always look around and find, at least, half of the
> >room
> >> doing the same.
> >>
> >
> >If you google "origin of manners and etiquette", you get close to
> >800,000 hits. The concensus of the few I read seems to be that
> >manners were developed for many different reasons, some of them to
> >create a discipline in social situations and some of them just
> >plain arbitrarily to make a distinction between the upper classes
> >and the peasants. And as society changes, so do manners.
> >
> >There's a lot of similarity between etiquette and grammer in this
> >context.
>
> And spelling?

Completely up to whomever wrote the dictionary you use to arbitrate
the situation.

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