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A simple rule to remember: Dear Sir, Yours faithfully. Dear John, Yours sincerely. The two "s"s never go together (i.e. never Sir and Sincerely). I learned this at secretarial college many moons ago along with Envelopes for StaionEry and Articulated lorries for StationAry. And its always...

Hello everyone, I found this site via google due to a debate with a colleague over the correct use of sincerely/faithfully in a letter My argument is that when you dont know someone and wish to send them a formal letter, you end with 'yours sincerely' as its the initiation of correspondence and...

Maybe. In BritEnglish you put Yours sincerely if it is a letter addressed to a named person (Dear Mr. Smith) but Yours faithfully otherwise.

Hi, does a letter which starts with "To whom it may concern:" end with "Yours sincerely" or "Yours faithfully"? Thank you! Mojca

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.

Hello Emilia,It seems you did a quite good job! I have highlighted several phrases that caught my eye. I hope they will be useful in your quest for a scholarship!Remember that you should use "Yours faithfully" instead of "Yours sincerely" if you do not know the name of the recipient. By the way,...

There do seem to be many "partial views" in that thread. I'm inclined to agree with Nona. You won't go wrong if you use "Dear sir/Yours faithfully" and "Dear MrP/Yours sincerely" for ordinary business letters; but you can switch to "Best wishes/Kind regards" if for example you've already...

Anonymous wrote:As nobody has mentioned it previously, i thought i'd just say that "Yours Sincerely" is used informally and "Yours faithfully" is used on things such as formal business letters. Please note the case of the two phrases (capitalisation of the S or f) Poppycock, Anon. Your...

As nobody has mentioned it previously, i thought i'd just say that "Yours Sincerely" is used informally and "Yours faithfully" is used on things such as formal business letters. Please note the case of the two phrases (capitalisation of the S or f)

Hi guys, I think we should clarify just what kind of business emails we are talking about here. In his original post, Bubeldk spoke of his company going into a new country. Perhaps he/she might give us a short example of such an email. Failing that, the other posters should do this, to show how...