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silvievandam  +  38506 Wed, 21 Jul 04 11:06 AM
Hi,

As a Dutch national in an international working environment I regularly need to write business e-mails in English. I am doubting whether 'with kind regards' or 'kind regards' is the proper closing for an e-mail. My Dutch collegues tend to say 'with kind regards' but I am not sure if that is not too 'Dutch-English'.
I know that it is too informal usually for formal letters, in that case I use 'yours sincerely'.

I appreciate any help from you!

Thanks! Silvie.
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c4f4_dev, 5 yr 124 days ago
the full and offcial form is "with Kind Regards"
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silvievandam, 5 yr 124 days ago
Thank you very much for your help!
Anonymous, 3 yr 250 days ago

Should the first letter of a salutation as in "Kind regards" be capitalised? 

I was taught in secretarial school (many years ago), that salutations e.g. 'yours sincerely', 'yours faithfully' and 'kind regards' ... should not be capitalised at all.

Anonymous, 2 yr 133 days ago
According to my "Handbook of Commercial Correspondence" by A.Ashley (second edition 1992, first 1984) you should captalize it:

Yours sincerly,
[Signature]

or, if the receipient not known by name ("Dear-Sir-or-Madam" letters),

Yours faithfully,
[Signature]

Note: The book is seemingly written for British-style correspondence. American style correspondence might differ from it.

Anonymous, 1 yr 248 days ago

Where I went to school I was taught (& the meanings of the words make it seem logical) that "Yours truly," is the correct response for a business saluation (i.e. the information is true),  whereas "Yours sincerely," is correct for a personal salutation when corresponding with somebody that you know on a personal level.
Hope this helps!

Clive  +  490437 Tue, 18 Mar 08 10:31 PM

Hi,

In Canada, I usually see 'Yours sincerely'. Or variations like 'Sincerely yours' or 'Sincerely'.

I seldom see 'Yours faithfully'.

I never see 'Yours truly'.

Best wishes, Clive
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Anonymous, 113 days ago
I live and work in Britain; most of my colleagues would sign a work-related email with the following.

Regards,

Brian 

 

(if his name was Brian ! )

Some people write "Best regards"  (slightly more friendly).  

More formally I would follow it with the standard Company email signature, e.g. full name, job title, company name, etc. 

To my ears, "With kind regards" does sound very 'Continental' (i.e. European) !

Informally, some people write "Cheers"  or "Thankx".  I do not recomend these ! 

Hope this helps,

Regards,

John.

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