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"Yours sincerely" "Sincerely yours"
"Yours sincerely" "Sincerely yours"
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#51533 Fri, 22 Oct 04 11:51 AM
Dear all,
is there anybody who might be able to tell me the difference of "Yours sincerely" and "Sincerely yours"? Is it a difference between British English and American English?
I am looking forward to reading your ideas,
Alexander
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#54344 Tue, 09 Nov 04 01:20 PM
Hello dear readers,
well I am glad my question so complicated, nobody could answer.
At last I was not totally wrong signing my letters with "Yours sincerely".
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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#54677 Thu, 11 Nov 04 03:11 AM
you should post your question in the "free english grammar help" forum.you could get an answer there from a moderator.
my opinion is that both are the same.
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#54680 Thu, 11 Nov 04 03:23 AM
Alexander
I've just checked some letters I received from English and American Universities,sending me their prospectus.
The letters from UK are signed with "yours sincerely" and these from the USA are signed with "sincerely".
I hope this will help...
bluefish
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belldandy29
#54782 Thu, 11 Nov 04 05:12 PM
if you know the name of the person with whom you write then it is "sincerely yours", if not it is "yours sincerely"
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nona the brit
#54954 Fri, 12 Nov 04 03:53 PM
In British English that is incorrect.
If you know the name use Yours sincerely; if you do not know the name use Yours faithfully.
We have covered the Yours sincerely/Sincerely yours topic before and came to the conclusion that the first is British English word order and the second is American English word order.
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The name says it all.
Yours sincerely
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Yours faithfully
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#119782 Wed, 20 Jul 05 10:08 AM
one is formal and one is informal love jessica beach
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#196967 Wed, 15 Feb 06 07:47 AM
Though both are one and the same, the latter shows little more intimacy.
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#277602 Sun, 08 Oct 06 02:22 AM
my english teacher (she was from the uk) taught us to avoid "sincerely yours" and to use only "yours sincerely", because "sincerely yours" sounded too much like "all yours"...
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