DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have posed this question twice, and realize that you don’t want to answer. Would you mind telling me why women and children loudly say “mwah” when they kiss a person on the cheek?

Giving your husband’s face a smack has a drastically different meaning in France than it does elsewhere. Instead of the ‘mwah’ sound Americans use to mimic kissing, French people opt for the sound of ...

What has her musing is why she rather likes the “mwah” sound (and whether it shouldn’t be spelled “maaaaa”). Cheek kissing itself, as an ordinary greeting, is relatively new in the United States, and ...

'˜Mwah mwah' (though the '˜puch-puch' sound comes closest to the routine) the champagne slang for air-kissing, is still quite an alien form of greeting for us Indians. Reason why you will often see ...