Kelly was standing and where P———— joined him. In his comment attached to the OP's question above , Frank provides a link to a crucial early instance where "yours truly" appears not in the final sentence of a letter but somewhat earlier in a postscript. It occurs in a letter annexed to Document No.
Please not to forget to give my wife or my brother the papers I asked you for, and oblige yours truly. You shall hear from me again. Yours truly , N. As Frank indicates, the meaning of the first "yours truly" in this example is clearly "me," though the writer may have been strongly influenced in his word choice by the standard formalities of letter writing. The next question, then, is when did people begin using "yours truly" outside the context of a letter? Collins, Armadale , 11, Yours truly, sir, has an eye for a fine woman and a fine horse.
You may take it as straight from yours truly that you'll go to your own funeral if trouble starts. Here is a fuller presentation of the Armadale instance :. Armadale, which way your business takes you? Toward Bayswater? Would you mind dropping me in the Park? It's a habit of mine when I'm in London to air myself among the aristocracy.
Yours truly , sir, has an eye for a fine woman and a fine horse ; and when he's in Hyde Park he's quite in his native element. And here is a longer look at the Kettle instance :. I've neither, and I don't deny that if you bring up all your local army to interfere, I may have a toughish fight of it; but whatever happens to me in the long run, you may take it as straight from yours truly that you'll go to your own funeral if trouble starts.
So put that in your hookah and smoke it, tintacks, and give me the other tube. I didn't find any instances excluding letters earlier than Armadale where "yours truly" clearly seems to mean "me.
One unusual instance from involves a character named Yours Truly. The author sets the scene thus:. Private room over the Mirror office, corner of Ann and Nasau—Supper on the round table, and brigadier mixing summat and water—Flagg, the artist, fatiguing the salad with a paper-folder—Devil in waiting—Quarter past ten, and enter " Yours Truly " from the opera.
My old stud groom will come to your diggings this evening to give you a help. So au revoir till mess time, when you will see yours truly ,' and putting his horse at a five-foot wall, he sent him over, hurling the loose stones behind him in a cloud, and was quickly out of sight.
There was something uncomfortable, uncanny about the woman [Paulina] which made her companionship more oppressive to Gabrielle than any mere lack of education or good manners could have done. Fielding, and ask him to come and see you, Paulina? They two were alone. Whether you use "warm regards," "best regards," or simply "regards," this is an acceptable way to close correspondence in the US.
Add "warm" or "best" when you want to seem a little less stiff. Almost like a polite smile. Brits use "Yours sincerely" while Americans write "Sincerely yours. Does sending an email to the "Director of Human Resources" make you less formal than if you were sending a written letter? Let us know in the comments below if you stick to the formal rules for ending correspondence with "Yours sincerely" or "Yours faithfully. Kathy Edens is a blogger, a ghost writer, and content master who loves writing about anything and everything.
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Every entry ends with a summary explaining why the grammar point matters to a writer. Informally, yours truly is also used as a synonym for I , me , or myself. Yours truly is a conventional phrase that is used to politely end a letter.
It is used in the same way as similar phrases, such as Sincerely or Best wishes. Yours truly, Ben. Informally , yours truly is used to refer to oneself. Often, this sense of yours truly is used humorously or playfully. It can be used in place of the words I , me , or myself , as in Nobody is better at failing tests than yours truly.
The first records of the letter-ending yours truly come from around It is made from a combination of the words yours and truly. Yours truly is used to close a letter, email, or similar communications.
When used to refer to yourself, yours truly is not used in formal writing. What are some synonyms for yours truly? What are some words that share a root or word element with yours truly?
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