Yours truly - sometimes; yours faithfully - never (far too British! ); Yours - most of the time.
Lisa | Homepage | 09.10.04 - 2:10 am | #

In formal writing you see a lot of "Sincerely." I was going through a stack of correspondences between lawyers when I read this post, and I checked. They all ended with "Sincerely."

Kind regards,

Joe
Joe Geoghegan | 09.10.04 - 4:46 am | #

many letters end with "sincerely yours" (but nobody is that sincerely, or mine ....)
Sal | 09.10.04 - 1:51 pm | #

I was always taught that you use Yours sincerely when you know the name of the person you are writing to, and Yours faithfully when you don't. But that would be a New Zealand opinion, not an American one.
Nicole (remember me?)
Nicole | 09.11.04 - 12:47 am | #

No. Use "Very truly yours" unless you're in NYC in which case you can be snazzy and say "Yours etc"
ron | 09.11.04 - 12:57 am | #

btw i hope you went to this...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spa...ges/ 476225.html

be well
shaul | 09.11.04 - 2:42 am | #

OK, so you Americans aren't a very 'faithful' bunch...very 'sincere' but not very faithful...

Nicole, NZ...am I right in thinking Rananna and D'star?
Ashley | Homepage | 09.11.04 - 10:20 am | #

Absolutely. Thought we might have caught up at a certain brit a few months ago, but you weren't there...
Nicole | 09.11.04 - 8:42 pm | #