Christopher Buckley on The History of the Social Faux Pas
The Secrets of Statecraft
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Missus Styvesant's Mispronunciation
Mispronunciation can lead to all sorts of trouble. Monarchs and antte mispronunciations a along established source of popar. This happened memorably to a missus stuyvesant. She was actually a real person. The dressier the occasion seems, the greater the potential for disaster.
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