ESL, Formal, General & Business Letter Writing (English language)

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Mister Micawber — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:05:35 GMT

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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

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:14:30 GMT

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).

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:10:21 GMT

"Tired as hell, I remain,
Denis"

Brilliant.

I love it!

Laughing much, I am.

Claire

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:25:38 GMT

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.

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:04:07 GMT

Plenty opinions but no facts here. Personally I wouldn't dream of using "Kind regards" or any of its upper/lower case variants (but then I am an opinionated git). Should I find anything definitive I'll be back.

Peace and love,

Sputnik

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:24:05 GMT

I agree!

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:15:31 GMT

Too funny! Denis, it is late and I am tired as hell. Your post made me laugh. Thanks for your humor.

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Clive — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:56:29 GMT

Hi,

Personally, I wouldn't consider 'Regards' or 'Kind regards' as formal at all.

Clive

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Susankay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:29:52 GMT

In a more formal letter, just Regards or With regards, is used.

Best regards or Warm regards really means "My warm regards to you and yours."

There is no other closing after you write these.

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:46:46 GMT

Do you mean "a tad presumptuous", rather than "a tad preposterous"?

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:08:29 GMT

The last example is just horrible. For one thing, if you don't know the person you're writing to at all, you shouldn't use "Yours sincerely". Much better:

Dear Sir or Madam,
...
Yours faithfully,
John Smith

or

Dear Jane,
...
Kind regards,
John

or

Dear Mr Brown,
...
Yours sincerely,
John Smith

or

Dear Mr Brown,
...
With kind regards.

Yours sincerely,
John Smith

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:46:53 GMT

Seems like "kind regards" is shorthand for the above example. I recently started using "kindest regards" as a closing and just accidentally found that it appears to be grammatically incorrect. So I realize that there's the argument that if you just put "Kind regards," you are stating that you are kind, but if you put "With kind regards," you are not. Very confusing.

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Mister Micawber — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:54:17 GMT

... a memo is a informal method.

Hope this ends the confusion which I see is in a lot of replies to this query.

I sincerely doubt it, Anon.

Rgds,

MM

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:49:26 GMT

Kind regards is only written when writing a note or a memo - by any method (emails etc).

Yours sincerely to known addressees or yours faithfully to an unknown addressee are the the correct ways to end a letter as it is a formal method - whereas writing a note or a memo is a informal method.

Hope this ends the confusion which I see is in a lot of replies to this query.

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Mister Micawber — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:54:41 GMT

No, unless you are a close friend of the addressee.