literally, "Give me salt!" with no sign of a please or thank you involved. I'm always taken a little aback and bite my tongue to stifle a "Say please!" after so many years of training children in ...

“A lot of ‘please’ is definitely used to basically ... We know that people find it hard to say no to requests because it is impolite to do so,” Vanessa Bohns, a Cornell University ...

The president told a crowd that his wife and vice president discouraged him from mentioning ‘extremely controversial’ things.