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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...

Hi, well, if it's formal I don't think you usually say "John". Maybe "Mr. Johnson" or something else. Using "John" and a colon seems too direct and concise to me. Anyway, I once read somewhere that nowadays all emails tend to be pretty informal, even the...

Marius Hancu wrote: As far as I know, comma in the UK, colon in North America. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/31/a2774531.shtml A couple of decades ago, I remember learning colon being used in formal letters as “Dear ***:”. Gradually, the comma was replacing the colon...

Hi Crys, I suspect opinions vary on this, but if I am writing a formal letter through e-mail then I follow all the same protocols as I normally would. Actually, I go one step further. I write my message in MS Word, then change it into PDF format, and attach it as an enclosure. I also have...

Grzegorz G 27/5 Boguslawskiego Street 43-600 Jaworzno, Silesia Poland wafel@xx.pl October 6, 2004 XX XX Undergraduate Admissions Officer UCL Faculty of Laws Bentham House Endsleigh Gardens London WC1H 0EG email@ucl Dear Ms XX: Thank you for your quick reply. Poland has...

Dear Mrs. Guest, I encourage you to register though it is not required. As far as spacing is concerned, I would single space my sentences and I would leave a space between paragraphs. This is only a letter, not a manuscript. So it is no big deal either way. I would encourage you to only...

I take it you mean in the 'Dear Sir/ Dear Fred' part. I have never seen a colon used in this situation. Either use a comma, or for a more modern look even in formal letters, skip the puncutation altogether.