re: Best Regards, Kind Regards, Yours Sincerely? page 7
My company is going into new countries, everybody in the administration is taking an English course. During this course one teacher claimed that you should never, never use the greeting “Best regards”. Instead you should use “Yours sincerely” or “Kind regards”.
Well, when I went to business School in 1979 I only learned that you should only use the phrase "Yours faithfully,".
Reading this very long thread I think that one should conclude that if you know the person, you can use "Yours sincerely", and if you do not know the person, you should use "Yours faithfully".
Is this correct?
Someone wrote that you might capitalize the first letter in both words. What is the significance of that and what would it mean?
Yours faithfully,
Benny Bubel
Comments (Page 7)
It suggests to me at least some degree of romantic interest.
Clive
Peace,
Chuck
It' OK. Just informal.
Clive
Mr. P, I think it is in "Marjorie Morningstar" that the heroine copies out a letter she has just written to some man all over again on a fresh sheet of paper, just so she can sign it with the cool, breezy "Best," rather than whatever she had before. When I read that I'd never thought of "best" as a closing for a letter, and I'm embarrassed to admit I signed lots of letters that way for a while because I thought it seemed cool and breezy too
But then, over here, a working day isn't quite complete without at least one chorus of tuts.
Best regards, [Spelling: use "regard" ("regards" are feelings of affection)]
Fact.