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Anonymous, 1 yr 335 days ago

There's not a real difference between them. They're both American ways of ending commercial letters...British people would use "Yours faithfully"

Chiara

Anonymous, 328 days ago
What about "Yours"? Does anyone use this? Does it sound too abrupt?
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Clive  +  625268 Mon, 29 Dec 08 02:55 AM
Hi,
'Yours' is fine as a friendly and informal way of ending, at least in my experience.

Yours,
           Clive
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Anonymous, 281 days ago

So far as I know, I have seen in the oxford dictionary for Spanish – English translation in a personal letter format the “Sincerely yours," sentence to close the letter. But my knowledge in English would be not too deep since it is non my natural language. Big Smile

Yours truly, Patricio
Anonymous, 251 days ago
 In where I grew up, if it is a formal letter, say from a utility company to customers, the letter ends with "Yours faithfully". All my English lanuguage books taught us to use "Your sincerely" when you write to somebody you know.  The first time I saw "Sincerely yours" was from a university in the U.S.
Anonymous, 200 days ago
You are right. Is the glass half empty or half full. Nice day!
Anonymous, 9 days ago
Dear Alexander,


well Alexander there is in fact a cultural differnitation between the two, the quarl, "yours sincerely" is indeed correct that much is true but, in other cultures "sincerely yours" is also correct. So there is no wrong way to say it for example: When Amercans say "You can reach me at this number ???-??.", someone from UK would say "you can reach on this number ???-??". so please feel free to use it how ever you feel.


sincerely yours, or yours sincerely which ever you prefer but, always with love


Herman

Anonymous, 9 days ago
these is difference in pattern of writing nothing more than that,, both of them give the same sense
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