Talk:Please

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"The politeness markers please, thank you, and sorry provide a raft of problems for lexicographical treatment. Grammatically, they fall between categories. As pragmatic elements, they defy easy definition, and variations in their usage are subtle. ... This study investigates how please, thank you, thanks, and sorry are treated in thirteen monolingual dictionaries of English, finding variation in (a) the extent to which their interactional functions are covered, (b) the types of information contained in definitions, and (c) the (sometimes very subtle) ways in which information about the potential (im)polite effects of these words is communicated. M. Lynne Murphy, "Defining your P's and Q's: Describing and Prescribing Politeness in Dictionaries", Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, Volume 40, Issue 2, (2019)."