We had it drilled into our heads that "regards" was a salutation and "in regard to" was proper for direction to a subject. So it is disturbing to hear it misued commonly, today.

Where I went to school I was taught (& the meanings of the words make it seem logical) that "Yours truly," is the correct response for a business saluation (i.e. the information is true), whereas "Yours sincerely," is

Respected..., I am an Indian, aged 37 years - I'm a MALE. I got your e-mail address during my search for a pen-friend for improving my English. I had sent a message to your mail address too, a couple of days back, before I get myself approved

But seriously I think that there is a tonal issue to salutations. Let's ask the question of whether this is appropriate. I am a native English speaker who didn't pay much attention to this until I grew up and got into business. For example,

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.

Dear Friends, I'm looking for a proper salutation of my e-mail. It's an enquiry about company's services. I don't know anything about recipient (support@address.com). "Dear Sir/Madam" seems too formal for this certain case. What less formal

OK darlin’ that’s not too difficult. I’m not very old but I’ve been lucky to read some helpful books and to have attended a couple of great job getting’ workshops. This is what I’ve been told regarding references and letters of recommendation.

Hallo, I always wonder what the appropriate way of addressing people in emails(snip) At work I usually don't bother with a salutation, but some of my friends and relations think that rather abrupt, so I often start with Hallo! and end with

Hi, I reckon it’s a good letter but it sounds like you’re offering your general/special competencies to an employer without researching their business or the job. Maybe the layout and salutation isn’t so important but I’d find a MS Word template,

The traditional USAn political speech opener is "My fellow Americans". What do the pols in other countries use? I think that US politicians (particularly presidents) are lucky in having such a phrase which clearly unites their listeners,