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&lt;p&gt;BTW, you might consider paying credit card bills via your online banks, which makes things easier and you never need to worry about losing pay-in reciept any more. 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Feebs11&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Riyasknr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Dear friend...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;#39;t know much more english.... Please help me....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would say this..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my credit card number (## ##). I have paid Dhs.250 on last 14-May-2008. Still now It&amp;#39;s not credit my account. unfortunately I missed my paid receipt also. Please check your system and credit to my account soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Please reply me....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks &amp;amp; Best Regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ur&amp;#39;s riya&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear Sirs,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am writing about a problem with my credit card account. &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My credit card is number ***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;. On 14 May I paid in the sum of Dhs 250, but this payment has not been credited to my account. Unfortunately, I have lost my pay-in receipt. Could you check on the system and ensure this sum has been credited to the account.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Please reply as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yours faithfully,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;name&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Payment missed</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PaymentMissed/gvmwr/post.htm#524382</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:33:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:524382</guid><dc:creator>Feebs11</dc:creator><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Riyasknr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Dear friend...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;#39;t know much more english.... Please help me....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would say this..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my credit card number (## ##). I have paid Dhs.250 on last 14-May-2008. Still now It&amp;#39;s not credit my account. unfortunately I missed my paid receipt also. Please check your system and credit to my account soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Please reply me....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks &amp;amp; Best Regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ur&amp;#39;s riya&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Sirs,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am writing about a problem with my credit card account. My credit card is number xxxxxxx. On 14 May I paid in the sum of Dhs 250, but this payment has not been credited to my account. Unfortunately, I have lost my pay-in receipt. Could you check on the system and ensure this sum has been credited to the account.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Please reply as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yours faithfully,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;name&amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/9/gvwwb/Post.htm#523227</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:51:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:523227</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yours sincerely and Yours faithfully&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the UK, traditional valedictions have been mainly replaced by &amp;quot;Yours sincerely&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Yours faithfully&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Do not paste and copy lengthy material without citing references-- MM)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a id="I_have_the_honour_to_remain.2C_Madam.2C_Your_Majesty.27s_most_humble_and_obedient_servant" name="I_have_the_honour_to_remain.2C_Madam.2C_Your_Majesty.27s_most_humble_and_obedient_servant"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;I personally feel that Kind Regards or Best Regards sounds cold and distant.&amp;nbsp; Yours Truely.....or anything starting out with YOURS is to personal. A simple Thank You is warm, professional, and friendly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Petyon/ HR Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Motivation letter! Would anyone check this for me, please?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MotivationLetterWouldAnyoneCheck/gdrjr/post.htm#516018</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:516018</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><description>.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is generally well done in regard to content.&amp;nbsp; I have underlined some problem areas:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Madam,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   I am &lt;strike&gt;hereby&lt;/strike&gt; writing to apply for a two-month working experience in England, in which I am particularly interested. My name is Katerina Vaculikova and I am a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;21 years old&lt;/span&gt; student in my second year of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;studies, at&lt;/span&gt; the St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, PalackÃ½ University, Olomouc.&amp;nbsp; The purpose of this letter is not only to describe my educational and professional background, but also to &lt;strike&gt;focus your attention on&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt; demonstrate&lt;/strong&gt; how highly motivated I am for such an opportunity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   I first became interested in social work through being involved&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; into&lt;/span&gt; an integrating project for handicapped people under the aegis of EU, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Inclusion Czech republic&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;strike&gt;Within this project&lt;/strike&gt; I was responsible for preparing and organising 2-day workshops as well as &lt;strike&gt;for&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;keeping&lt;/span&gt; foreign relations, relations with donors and also with those who made this project really &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;working&lt;/span&gt; â people with any kind of handicap. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    During the last two years of my studies, I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;went through&lt;/span&gt; my working &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;experiences&lt;/span&gt; in a variety of institutional and other facilities and with many types of clients. As my school &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;practices went on&lt;/span&gt;, I subsequently realised who I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; to work &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whit&lt;/span&gt;. I feel the closest relation to the target &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;group&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strike&gt;represented by&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;of&lt;/strong&gt; elderly or mentally handicapped people. I know that I can offer them the best of myself, try to make their troubles more tolerable and accept them as unique beings. I &lt;strong&gt;cannot&lt;/strong&gt; even describe how satisfied and happy I always feel while working with them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strike&gt;   Concerning&lt;/strike&gt; my language skills&lt;strike&gt;, they&lt;/strike&gt; are based on my working experiences abroad. I spent almost six months in London, working and discovering &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; beauty of England and I found &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;this place&lt;/span&gt; very beautiful. This two-month working experience could give me a chance to improve my language skills and show me what&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; the care is alike&lt;/span&gt; in one of the most advanced countries of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;world. Because&lt;/span&gt; no matter where you are and no matter what you do, the main principle of social work should still be to help &lt;strike&gt;to&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the needed ones&lt;/span&gt; as much as possible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    In order to &lt;strike&gt;be good and &lt;/strike&gt;achieve high standards, I need to obtain not only theoretical, but also practical knowledge and I am convinced that this higher level of experience could help me to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;prove that&lt;/span&gt;. I would like to combine the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;knowledge I already know&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;strike&gt;any&lt;/strike&gt; new information, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;align&lt;/span&gt; the knowledge and gain a wider perspective on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the matter&lt;/span&gt;. Furthermore, I feel that such an opportunity is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a way how&lt;/span&gt; to find out what I really want and if my life journey has taken the right direction. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Taking&lt;/span&gt; this type of challenge can help me to discover what is truly hidden inside me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     French novelist Anatole France once said: âTo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.â After a few years of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;child dreaming&lt;/span&gt; I came to know that if I finally try to turn my dreams into reality I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;could&lt;/span&gt; better envision my future and direct the path of my life&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;â¦ &lt;/span&gt;and therefore I am &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;catching&lt;/span&gt; this opportunity.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; J &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yours faithfully, &lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/9/gcmdk/Post.htm#514481</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:52:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514481</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>The convention in letter writing is simply this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#39;t know the name of the person you are writing to (maybe it is a letter of complaint to the head of a business or organisation) and you are beginning the letter Dear Sir or Madam, then you should sign off Yours faithfully.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you do know the person by name, and start the letter Dear Mr or Mrs ***, then you should sign off Yours sincerely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In email, the sign off can be much more informal, such as Best wishes or Kind regards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope that helps?Â </description></item><item><title>Re:  Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/3/gblzq/Post.htm#509319</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 10:54:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:509319</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;When I was at secrerarial college many years ago, the rule&amp;nbsp; was that if your letter was addressed by name:&amp;nbsp; &amp;#39;Dear Mr. Smith&amp;#39;, or &amp;#39;Dear John Smith&amp;#39; you used &amp;#39;Yours sincerely&amp;#39;.&amp;nbsp; If however you addressed it more impersonally: &amp;#39;Dear Sir/Madam&amp;#39; then you used &amp;#39;Yours faithfully&amp;#39;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Shall I write my name and address at the top right side of my Motivation Letter..?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WriteNameAddressRightSide-MotivationLetter/2/gbwcp/Post.htm#508400</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:41:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:508400</guid><dc:creator>Tanit</dc:creator><description>Hi Tamguatlay,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not Nona, and you probably won&amp;#39;t trust me because I&amp;#39;m not a native speaker of English.&amp;nbsp; I only wanted to share my experience, which can add something to the topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an ESL student of BrE, I was taught to end a letter with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Your faithfully&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; when it addresses an unknown addressee (i.e., when it begins with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Dear Sir or Madam&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;) and with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Yours sincerely&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; when you know his/her name (i.e., the letter begins with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Dear Mr/Ms/Miss [+surname]&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, during my year in the UK, I saw the expression &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Your faithfully&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; only twice, in two letters written by members of my University staff.&amp;nbsp; Funnily enough, the first one began with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;To whom it may concern&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (another extremely rare expression &lt;img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /&gt;) and the second with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Miss [+ my surname]&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, two opening formulae I was taught NOT to use, when having classes &lt;img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /&gt; ... none of them actually began with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Dear Sir or Madam&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;!&amp;nbsp; Both the letters I mentioned (I&amp;#39;ve still got them) come from a University, so I&amp;#39;m obviously not talking about illiterate writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing I can say is that my British teacher on the one hand strongly advised us to close formal letters in our CAE and CPE exams with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Yours faithfully&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Yours sincerely&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (depending on the circumstances) because those were the expression the examiners were looking for.&amp;nbsp; On the other hand, he also warned us that these day most people, also in the UK, will close those letters with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Sincerely&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Regards&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Kind regards&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If my experience is anything to go by, what we learn sometimes can differ from what is actually done nowadays, just as Clive said. &lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/3/zqwwm/Post.htm#498673</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:42:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:498673</guid><dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Canada, I&amp;#39;d say &amp;#39;Yours faithfully&amp;#39; is rarely used. Everybody wants to be more friendly, I guess. &lt;img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best wishes, Clive&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestRegardsRegardsYoursSincerely-Correct/3/zqwgq/Post.htm#498643</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:498643</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The expression &amp;quot;yours faithfully&amp;quot; isn&amp;#39;t old fashioned. It applies to any letter where the recipient is unknown. Hence, if you begin with &lt;em&gt;Dear Sir/Madam&lt;/em&gt; you end with &lt;em&gt;Yours Faithfully&lt;/em&gt;. If you know the person in a formal context, or at least their name/sex, then you write &lt;em&gt;Yours Sincerely &lt;/em&gt;or Sincerely. Ergo, if it is a letter to a lecturer, it would begin &lt;em&gt;Dear Dr. Euripides&lt;/em&gt; and end &lt;em&gt;Yours Sincerely&lt;/em&gt;. In cases where you are on a first name basis with the recipient, you can then use a more friendly context specific greeting: kind regards, best wishes, all the best, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fact.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 'With kind regards' or 'Kind regards'?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RegardsRegards/zxxrv/post.htm#490437</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:31:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:490437</guid><dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Canada, I usually see &amp;#39;Yours sincerely&amp;#39;. Or variations like &amp;#39;Sincerely yours&amp;#39; or &amp;#39;Sincerely&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I seldom see &amp;#39;Yours faithfully&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I never see &amp;#39;Yours truly&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best wishes, Clive&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>