# How to end a letter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917 "2011-06-01T01:38:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917/21 "2011-06-02T21:26:04Z")

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Actually, I wrote to my manager at work just now, and realized I usually don’t put anything at all for a closing, except my first name after a blank line.

Johanna (e.g.)

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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917/22 "2011-06-02T21:41:59Z")

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> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> En espérant le tout à votre entière satisfaction, je vous prie, Madame, Monsieur, d’agréer l’expression de ma plus haute considération.

I will definitely use that one next time.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917/23 "2011-06-03T00:45:39Z")

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> [@Weedy](#):
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> I will definitely use that one next time.

Remember that you have to write “Madame, Monsieur,” if you opened the letter with “Monsieur, Madame,” and that your title goes before your name:

\*Le vice-président responsable du service du développement et mise en marché de nouveaux produits dans le secteur informatique et des télécommunications,

Jean Untel\*

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**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917/24 "2011-06-03T08:39:50Z")

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> [@BMalion](#):
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> Pace Off, Gate Stoofed.
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> Your name
> 
> it only works when said in a “soccer-hooligan” accent.

Oddly, that phrase only works (to my ear) in the accent from Birmingham (England) specifically.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-end-a-letter/583917/25 "2011-06-03T14:02:06Z")

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> [@neuroman](#):
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> Regards,
> 
> yomamasofat  
> Kind Regards,
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> yomamasofatwhenshesitsaroundthehouseshesitsAROUNDthehouse  
> Best Regards,
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> yomamasofatshethinkfriedchickenoneofthefourmajorfoodgroups  
> Salutations,
> 
> yomama

I’m going to second these suggestions… at least half of them anyway. I’m a big fan of the simple yet elegant “regards.”

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