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MUSCOVITE Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

About salutions ( "bare DEAR')

Hi,

I notice many emails ( I mean the incoming email I have to handle at work ) start with the salutation 'Dear,' ( bare 'Dear') nowadays. I am quite comfortable with 'dear sir' or 'dear colleagues' but the contracted version looks a little odd, doesn't it?

If my memory serves me right, this kind of salutation was never used say in the 1980s ( or even 90s)?

I remember first encountering this salution just a few years ago.

What do you ( native speakers) think of this?

thanks

muscovite
  

Top answer

I think very little indeed if it. I have not received any such salutation; if I had, I would have thought that it was a form letter with the recipient's name inadvertantly left blank. It may be more acceptable in Indian English.

— Mister Micawber

  • I think very little indeed if it.
  • I have not received any such salutation; if I had, I would have thought that it was a form letter with the recipient's name inadvertantly left blank.
  • It may be more acceptable in Indian English.
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I think very little indeed if it. I have not received any such salutation; if I had, I would have thought that it was a form letter with the recipient's name inadvertantly left blank. It may be more acceptable in Indian English.
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Mister Micawber

Thank you.

If I understand your comments correctly ( leaving aside your reference to possible Indian English usage) this salutation ( bare "Dear ) looks "clumsy", "impolite", etc. ( and therefore is absolutely unacceptable)? :-)

muscovite
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