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Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:47:27 GMT

As a trained teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL), the rules are still the same as they were when I left school (50 years ago!).

The valedition "Yours faithfully" is used in cases where the salutation is "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam" .

The valedition "Yours sincerely" is used in cases where the salutation is personal, "Dear Ian" or "Dear Mr. Blogs" .

The valedition "Your truly" is often used in the USA but almost never used here in England other than as slang meaning me, myself or I (the meal was prepared by yours truly) but even this is quite rare.

Capitalisation for the valedition is the same as for any paragraph, First letter is a capital then lower case.

"Regards", "Kind regards", "Best regards" and "Best Wishes" have become very popular since the advent of email. I personally use them only in emails. Basically, they all mean the same but my personal gut feeling is that "Regards" is the most formal and used for first contact, "Kind regards" is still formal but used for ongoing communication and "Best regards" remains formal but used when the person has become an acquaintance. "Best Wishes" would be used for a friend.

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:21:05 GMT

I am an English businessman.

The way you're supposed to sign off a letter depends on how you start.

In a letter, if you don't know the name of the person to whom you are sending the letter, you start "Dear Sirs,". If you start with this form, it is correct to end with "Yours faithfully,"

In a letter, if you do know the name of the person to whom you are sending the letter, you start "Dear Mark,". If this is a formal letter, then it is correct to end with "Yours sincerely," - though if this is an informal letter you can end it however you want.

With email the conventions are more recent and less clearly defined. I often start with "Hi Mark", or "Hello Mark" (just "Mark," is a bit gruff) if I've already spoken with the addressee. Most emails to me usually follow this format. I usually end these emails with "Kind regards," though lots of people just use "Regards,"

I do use the "Dear Mark, / Yours Sincerely" format in emails if I'm making contact with someone for the first time.

Hope this helps...

Re: Payment missed

Osee — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:12:32 GMT

My credit card number is *** or the red part below?

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.

Feebs11
Riyasknr

Dear friend...

I don't know much more english.... Please help me....

I would say this..

This is my credit card number (## ##). I have paid Dhs.250 on last 14-May-2008. Still now It's not credit my account. unfortunately I missed my paid receipt also. Please check your system and credit to my account soon as possible.

Please reply me....

Thanks & Best Regards,

Ur's riya

Dear Sirs,

I am writing about a problem with my credit card account. My credit card is number ***. 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.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

name

Re: Payment missed

Feebs11 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:33:01 GMT

Riyasknr
Dear friend...

I don't know much more english.... Please help me....

I would say this..

This is my credit card number (## ##). I have paid Dhs.250 on last 14-May-2008. Still now It's not credit my account. unfortunately I missed my paid receipt also. Please check your system and credit to my account soon as possible.

Please reply me....

Thanks & Best Regards,

Ur's riya

Dear Sirs,

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.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

name

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:51:44 GMT

Yours sincerely and Yours faithfully

In the UK, traditional valedictions have been mainly replaced by "Yours sincerely" or "Yours faithfully".

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I personally feel that Kind Regards or Best Regards sounds cold and distant. Yours Truely.....or anything starting out with YOURS is to personal. A simple Thank You is warm, professional, and friendly.

Petyon/ HR Manager

Re: Motivation letter! Would anyone check this for me, please?

Mister Micawber — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:14 GMT

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It is generally well done in regard to content. I have underlined some problem areas:

Dear Madam,

I am ~~hereby~~ 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 21 years old student in my second year of studies, at the St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, PalackÃ½ University, Olomouc. The purpose of this letter is not only to describe my educational and professional background, but also to ~~focus your attention on~~ demonstrate how highly motivated I am for such an opportunity.

I first became interested in social work through being involved into an integrating project for handicapped people under the aegis of EU, The Inclusion Czech republic. ~~Within this project~~ I was responsible for preparing and organising 2-day workshops as well as ~~for~~ keeping foreign relations, relations with donors and also with those who made this project really working â people with any kind of handicap.

During the last two years of my studies, I went through my working experiences in a variety of institutional and other facilities and with many types of clients. As my school practices went on, I subsequently realised who I want to work whit. I feel the closest relation to the target group ~~represented by~~ of 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 cannot even describe how satisfied and happy I always feel while working with them.

~~Concerning~~ my language skills~~, they~~ are based on my working experiences abroad. I spent almost six months in London, working and discovering a beauty of England and I found this place very beautiful. This two-month working experience could give me a chance to improve my language skills and show me what the care is alike in one of the most advanced countries of the world. Because no matter where you are and no matter what you do, the main principle of social work should still be to help to the needed ones as much as possible.

In order to ~~be good and~~ 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 prove that. I would like to combine the knowledge I already know and ~~any~~ new information, align the knowledge and gain a wider perspective on the matter. Furthermore, I feel that such an opportunity is a way how to find out what I really want and if my life journey has taken the right direction. Taking this type of challenge can help me to discover what is truly hidden inside me.

French novelist Anatole France once said: âTo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.â After a few years of child dreaming I came to know that if I finally try to turn my dreams into reality I could better envision my future and direct the path of my lifeâ¦ and therefore I am catching this opportunity. J

Yours faithfully,

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:52:10 GMT

The convention in letter writing is simply this:

If you don'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.

If you do know the person by name, and start the letter Dear Mr or Mrs ***, then you should sign off Yours sincerely.

In email, the sign off can be much more informal, such as Best wishes or Kind regards.

I hope that helps?Â

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:54:41 GMT

When I was at secrerarial college many years ago, the rule was that if your letter was addressed by name: 'Dear Mr. Smith', or 'Dear John Smith' you used 'Yours sincerely'. If however you addressed it more impersonally: 'Dear Sir/Madam' then you used 'Yours faithfully'

Re: Shall I write my name and address at the top right side of my Motivation Letter..?

Tanit — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:41:02 GMT

Hi Tamguatlay,

I am not Nona, and you probably won't trust me because I'm not a native speaker of English. I only wanted to share my experience, which can add something to the topic.

As an ESL student of BrE, I was taught to end a letter with "Your faithfully" when it addresses an unknown addressee (i.e., when it begins with "Dear Sir or Madam") and with "Yours sincerely" when you know his/her name (i.e., the letter begins with "Dear Mr/Ms/Miss [+surname]").

However, during my year in the UK, I saw the expression "Your faithfully" only twice, in two letters written by members of my University staff. Funnily enough, the first one began with "To whom it may concern" (another extremely rare expression ) and the second with "Miss [+ my surname]", two opening formulae I was taught NOT to use, when having classes ... none of them actually began with "Dear Sir or Madam"! Both the letters I mentioned (I've still got them) come from a University, so I'm obviously not talking about illiterate writers.

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 "Yours faithfully" or "Yours sincerely" (depending on the circumstances) because those were the expression the examiners were looking for. On the other hand, he also warned us that these day most people, also in the UK, will close those letters with "Sincerely", "Regards", "Kind regards".

If my experience is anything to go by, what we learn sometimes can differ from what is actually done nowadays, just as Clive said.

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Clive — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:42:25 GMT

Hi,

In Canada, I'd say 'Yours faithfully' is rarely used. Everybody wants to be more friendly, I guess.

Best wishes, Clive