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Coming to this much later on...(sorry!) I would say that I always use: Many thanks, but I often have great fun trying to work out which faithfully, sincerely etc would go at the bottom of a formal letter, which I love to address as To Whomsoever it may concern (rather than dear sir/madam) and get repeatedly told off by proof-reading friends. Many thanks, from an over enthusiastic poster 
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but I often have great fun trying to work out which faithfully, sincerely etc would go at the bottom of a formal letter, which I love to address as
I often had the problem in the past, and solved it
by just saying "Yours".
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I can remember reading an epistolary style novel set in the 1800s and each letter had yours /faithfully/sincerly and after that just had etc etc etc - made me laugh!
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When I hear the word cordial, I think of somebody who is trying to remain polite to somebody he doesn't particularly like. I think it is because I've often read sentences like, "o.k., let's try to remain cordial."
The way I sign off depends upon who I am writing to.
For friends, French or English, I typically write Salut ("bye" in French).
Business correspondence varies. I use "regards" most often. If it is a harse e-mail or letter, I don't use a sign off. Why say regards, when I don't mean them. In French correspondence, the whole, "please accept our sincerest..." type of closing is still in use here and the variety is large depending on who you are writing.
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When I hear the word cordial, I think of somebody who is trying to remain polite to somebody he doesn't particularly like. I think "cordial relations" is diplomat speak for "we didn't bite each other's heads off."
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but I often have great fun trying to work out which faithfully, sincerely etc would go at the bottom of a formal letter, which I love to address as
I often had the problem in the past, and solved it
by just saying "Yours".
That would be fine as long as you didnt forget yourself and add 'up' before the "yours"..............
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Don't think I have not thought that at a very great
number of times. Good comeback, slow...
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Just found this thread.
Interesting.
Every time I see a patient I send a report to the patient's primary physician. And every letter, addressed as it is to a colleague, is signed "Cordially," etc.
But then, I'm a dinosaur.
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either that or you need to get a new secretary/typist!
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