We have partnered with TradePub to bring you free industry magazines and resources - no coupons or credit cards required!

Visit: englishforums.tradepub.com


1 2 3 4 5
Share this topic:
Anonymous, 1 yr 150 days ago
Kind regards and best regards can be used interchangeably. To me, 'warm regards' sounds a little strange. Do not use both 'kind regards' and 'yours sincerely' in the same letter - use one or the other.
Anonymous, 1 yr 121 days ago
"Tired as hell, I remain,
Denis"

Brilliant.  (:D) Big Smile

I love it!

Laughing much, I am. (:D) Big Smile

Claire
Anonymous, 1 yr 102 days ago

Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English)


Informal, personal (to close friends and family):
  • With love
  • Best wishes

Semi-formal / informal (emails, notes
, business memos):
  • Kind regards
  • Best regards
  • Regards

Formal letters:

  • Yours sincerely
    • Use when you know the addressee by name (Dear John / Dear Mr Smith). You can only be sincere with someone you know.
  • Yours faithfully
    • Use when you don't know the persons name (Dear Sir or Madam).

Case / Capitalisation

Sentence case applies. Only capitalise the first letter of a sentence (with the exception of proper nouns and special conventions).

Punctuation

Open punctuation and mixed punctuation are common in the UK. If you begin the letter with "Dear Jane," (or "Dear Jane:" in American English), then the closing should be punctuated with a comma (e.g. "Kind regards, John"). These commas (or colon and comma in American English) would be omitted when writing a letter in open punctuation (as the line breaks make such punctuation redundant).
Mister Micawber  +  554137 Wed, 13 Aug 08 01:05 AM
.
Please cite a source for the material you took, Anon.  It does not represent AmE very accurately.   "Dear Jane:" in American English--  "Dear Jane:" is not used in American English
Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004
Yokohama
Veteran Member 30,798
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'
Anonymous, 1 yr 84 days ago
Could I finish a note to my grandchildren writing:

kind regards,

Your granddad
Mister Micawber  +  560621 Sun, 31 Aug 08 07:46 AM
.
Too formal for most grandparent - grandchild relationships.
verloc  +  876834 Thu, 27 Aug 09 09:24 AM
Hi

I can see this is an oll discussion but I have not found anywhere answer to the following question:

What else can you say apart from "best regards" or "best wishes" when ending a business e-mail but when corresponding with people you know well and for a long time.

When do you say "cheers" (= thank you?)

What else can you say?

I am pretty fed up with "best wishes" or "your sincerely" etc...

Please help :)

"cheers"

Joined on Wed, Aug 26 2009
New Member 05
Mister Micawber  suggested by stunner683  +  876896 Thu, 27 Aug 09 10:24 AM
I think that your email closings are too informal.  There is no reason why a business email should be any less formal than any other business correspondence.  It should close with 'Sincerely yours' unless the recipient is a familiar member of the other firm and someone with whom you have some personal familiarity beyond that of pure business correspondence.


If the latter is the case, then 'Best regards' is appropriate.  If you have an even friendlier relationship-- to the extent that you know the recipient's family, for instance-- then you can advance to 'Best wishes' or 'Cheers' or 'Later', etc, which otherwise should be limited to personal letters to friends and acquaintances.


Business English is very rigid in its use of fixed phrases, and there is no reason for angst because you feel that you must vary the very standard but very acceptable 'Sincerely yours'.

stunner683  +  876909 Thu, 27 Aug 09 10:40 AM
It's better to use:

 

"Thanks & Regards"

 

 

Joined on Thu, Aug 27 2009
New Member 01
1 2 3 4 5
© MediaCet Ltd. 2009, v5.0.3607.32596. All content posted by our users is a contribution to the public domain, this does not include imported usenet posts.*
For web related enquires please contact us on webmaster@mediacet.com, status updates are available at status.mediacet.com.
*Usenet post removal: Use 'X-No-Archive'. You may not have understood that your posts would end up in the public domain. Please send proof of the poster's email, we will remove immediately.