YoursTruly

Signing off at the end of a letter can be done in a variety of ways. Theres's the impersonal:

Regards, the terse (but false):

Yours, the insincere:

Sincerely, the obsequious:

Respectfully, and the even more craven:

V/r, ("Very respectfully"). The erudite Latinist may try:

Vale, ("Be healthy"). To a dear comrade one might venture:

Fondly, in a relationship where the out-and-out:

Love, is far too daring. But my personal favorite closing is simply the optimistic and ambiguous:

Best, Sometimes an inadvertent typo renders this as:

Beset, which is, alas, all too often accurate in these hectic times ...

TopicLanguage - TopicHumor - TopicPersonalHistory - Datetag20040830

Comment 31 Aug 2004^ at 07:54Z

I remain most respectfully mine.

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