With regards / regarding etc.

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Do you consider the following sentence to be good English in modern usage?Regards your original question, the answer is "yes".Thanks,Dave L

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[nq:1]Do you consider the following sentence to be good English in modern usage? Regards your original question, the answer is "yes".[/nq]
No. "With regard to" or, less formally, "regarding" or "considering".

wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

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[nq:1]Do you consider the following sentence to be good English in modern usage? Regards your original question, the answer is "yes". Thanks, Dave L[/nq]
Needs to be "regarding", "with respect to", "as this relates to", or maybe "as regards".
"Regards" isn't in the right form for an absolute construction. The verb needs to be a participle such as "regarding".

Chris Green

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[nq:2]Needs to be "regarding", "with respect to", "as this relates ... The verb needs to be a participle such as "regarding".[/nq]
I agree it's not correct English in the traditional sense. However hasn't "regards" become an accepted abbreviation of "with regards to"?

RT

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[nq:2]Do you consider the following sentence to be good English in modern usage? Regards your original question, the answer is "yes".[/nq]
In modern usage, I do, personally, since I regard "regards", in this context, as an elegant abreviation of "with regards to". But I'm interested to see what others think.
RT

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[nq:1]In modern usage, I do, personally, since I regard "regards", in this context, as an elegant abreviation of "with regards to". But I'm interested to see what others think.[/nq]
Then you're both wrong. "Regards" and "with regards to" are what one might write to terminate an informal letter to a friend or family.

"Blah, blah, blah...
Regards
RT"
or
"...
"Thanks for everything, and with (best) regards to your sister, RT"
"Regards" is not an elegant abbreviation of "with regard to".

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Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

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[nq:1]Do you consider the following sentence to be good English in modern usage? Regards your original question, the answer is "yes".[/nq]
As regards your question, the answer in "no."

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[nq:1]I agree it's not correct English in the traditional sense. However hasn't "regards" become an accepted abbreviation of "with regards to"?[/nq]
Maybe in UK usage; I've never seen it anywhere in US usage.

I think "as to" would be more common than "regards" (and even shorter).

Chris Green

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[nq:2]I agree it's not correct English in the traditional sense. However hasn't "regards" become an accepted abbreviation of "with regards to"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Maybe in UK usage; I've never seen it anywhere in US usage. I think "as to" would be more common than "regards" (and even shorter).[/nq]
Even shorter is the abbreviation that appears in the subject line.

Odysseus

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No one told me.

And I wouldn't accept it. And I think "regards" are greetings. As in "Give my regards to Broadway". If one is intending to use a noun, the word wanted here is "regard".

In Chris's example, "as regards", "regards" is a verb in the third person singular. That is not at all the same situation as "with regards to", where "regards" is a noun, but not the right one.
[nq:2]Maybe in UK usage; I've never seen it anywhere in US usage. I think "as to" would be more common than "regards" (and even shorter).[/nq]
[nq:1]Even shorter is the abbreviation that appears in the subject line.[/nq]
FTR, Odysseus means "Re". No offense meant, but I really dislike that use of re. For one thing, it is not, as so many people think, an abbreviation of regards or regarding or related (to). It is the ablative form of the Latin word res, meaning thing.

"With regard to", the meaning intended here, would be "in re", in the thing, in the matter (of).
"Re" alone appears on business memos, and letters perhaps, and means "thing", that is, the topic of the memo or letter. Even there, despite the fact that businessmen and others are forced to write that way, it seems to me phony and pretentious, using a Latin word in the ablative, where most people probably don't know what it means, only when it is used. And I don't know why in this usage it would be the ablative and not the nominative. Maybe re here is really an abbreviation for res?
I think businessmen got it from its use in the law: in rem, in re (must be two different meanings of "in" (in and into?), or someone's Latin wasn't very good either.), res ipsa loquitur, and maybe phrases.

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[nq:2]. . . . hasn't "regards" become an accepted abbreviation of "with regards to"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Maybe in UK usage; I've never seen it anywhere in US usage. I think "as to" would be more common than "regards" (and even shorter).[/nq]
I've never seen it in BrE, but perhaps it's some sort of recent fashion in business English. CG's "as to" is an elegant replacement (and it's probably what I would write) but some people might think it dismissive.

Alan Jones

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