nona the brit  +  50105 Tue, 12 Oct 04 07:41 PM Kind regards or Kind Regards This is just a slightly less formal way of ending a letter, to be honest it often doesn't have any relevance to your actual feelings for the person. In some circumstances I would use it to a complete stranger. Just because someone puts kind regards on the end of a letter I wouldn't think they particularly care about or respect me, it is just one of the standard sign-offs. You can also shorten it to Regards, but this is a bit abrupt, and I would be more likely to use it in an e-mail to a business acquaintence I deal with regularly. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all. Regards

	Denis the Menace  +  56581 Sun, 21 Nov 04 08:49 PM To be fair, we shouldn't create complicated protocols -- as we'd be doing by advocating a capital letter on Kind "Regards". After all, people have enough to remember in the first place. In fact, "Kind regards" is really just a minor sentence, a shortening of "I wish you kind regards." So there is no justification for upper-casing the "regards", but there certainly is for "Kind" since it begins the minor sentence. This is no different from writing, for example, "Good day." It may be a closing sentence, but it's still a sentence. Common sense is all that's needed. Denis the Menace Joined on Sun, Nov 21 2004 British Columbia, Canada New Member 04 Regards, Capital Letters

	Denis the Menace  +  79117 Mon, 07 Mar 05 09:02 AM I have not heard of "With best regards, I am." But who says we must have seen it before to validate it? I have seen phrases in the same vein, such as "Yours faithfully, I remain ... " I think there is justification in using whatever we want. To use the ridiculous, it should likewise be perfectly okay to say, "Scratching my nose, I am Sincerely everyone's, Elvis Presley" But beyond that, I would also say that the exact exampe you provided is flawed because of the period after "I am". Cleary this isn't the end of the sentence, and it would be impossible to convince me that the period belongs there. Tired as hell, I remain, Denis Denis the Menace Regards, Yours Faithfully, Dates

	Mister Micawber  +  304020 Thu, 14 Dec 06 11:54 PM No, unless you are a close friend of the addressee. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,788 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'