Best email sign-off
Posted by WonderWoman in : My life , trackbackI have an issue - with “cheers”. I hate it as a email sign-off. Someone signed off “cheerypop” on an email to me last week, and I rather liked that. Anyone got other suggestions beyond the usual “regards” etc?
P.S. I dunno where this aversion has emanated from but I just have it, OK? I also hate “What’s up?” in conversation.
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I’m guilty of signing off cheers - but am trying to change. My favorites right now are ‘yours in sport’, or ‘bat on’.
Both have the sort of jocular overtone that help hide my complete inability to play or even comprehend most group physical activity.
Yes, but there is a movement afoot to use cheerio.
cheerio
theshadowmaster
I tend to say ciao or see ya, ocassionally byesie or sometimes nothing at all.
nothing wrong with cheers. Get over it.
Cheers,
Fossil
Cheerio is the way of the future! All other email sign offs must bow to their new overlord Cheerio!
(Mind you, “cheerypop” and “bat on” are quite cool).
I change my sign-off depending on who I’m chatting to at the time so I use cheers or love or cu or may I remain Sir your obedient servant etc. Its a personal thing so express yourself.
Yours, in awe of your wonderment.
hg
I use all the best, best wishes, kind regards, cheers - whatever the occasion. I agree cheers can get tired. Maybe just a relevant phrase will do the job?
I agree with hannahsgranpa, it depends who I am emailing. I don’t send many emails to friends and family, I usually use instant messaging or the humble telephone. I usually keep my emailing for when talking to people I don’t know and like saying Kind Regards or Thank you before signing my name.
I have a habit of typing- chat soon-, because i also have the same dilema. It drives me nuts, cos I know, that I’m never gonna chat soon, cos email is so much quicker, I control the time limit spent etc etc etc.
To those I dont know, its regards.
cheers
chat soon
winnierose
I’m with theshadow and ‘cheerio’. To me, ‘cheerypops’ sounds like a happy passing of wind ROFL
Cheerio
I dont’ think there’s anything wrong with cheers.
I could think of a lot worse
Speedie
Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry: regards
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wishes
Synonyms: commendations, compliments, deference, devoirs, good wishes, greeting, greetings, love, remembrances, respects, salutation, salutations
Source: Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
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I am fond of the cheers.
Cheers and chin chin I say!
What about smashing!!
Thanks to magpie I’ve had a change of mind. If you say cheers at the end of an email what do you say when you clink glasses: cheers, chin chin, good health, may the road rise before you and the wind be always at our back, etc. From now on I vow to keep my literary and my alcoholic salutations separate.
Hmmm, it’s all about personal choice. The one I really grit my teeth over is - ‘Cool Banana’s’
How about a quiver of sign-offs for every occasion;
Game on! - for those footy club newsletters
Get some! - for complaints
Go figure! - for gossip
and bob’s yer mothers brother….. - ending advice emails
Triffic - the way poms sign off
Cool - kind of cheesy but very laid back
See ya when you’re better dressed! - good for MSN when you’re bored with the conversation.
Don’t go changin’ - really cheesy
Hang loose - (!)
That’ll do donkey - great if you’re green and ugly
Make it so - trekkies delight
Laters’
Booger
Thanks guys. Some good suggestions…
Reading all your suggestions has prompted me to think of another - what do you all think of
“May the force be with you” as a sign-off?
P.S. I think I’ll need therapy to get over cheers, though. Still.
P.P.S. You are SUCH a fossil, Fossil.