Yours sincerely or Sincerely yours

Alexander
I've just checked some letters I received from English and American Universities,sending me their prospectus.
The letters from UK are signed with "yours sincerely" and these from the USA are signed with "sincerely".
I hope this will help...

if you know the name of the person with whom you write then it is "sincerely yours", if not it is "yours sincerely"

In British English that is incorrect.

If you know the name use Yours sincerely; if you do not know the name use Yours faithfully.

We have covered the Yours sincerely/Sincerely yours topic before and came to the conclusion that the first is British English word order and the second is American English word order.

0 Though both are one and the same, the latter shows little more intimacy. 0-

my english teacher (she was from the uk) taught us to avoid "sincerely yours" and to use only "yours sincerely", because "sincerely yours" sounded too much like "all yours"...

Hi,

Yours sincerely is the standard and polite way of ending a letter. The words mean very little.

Sincerely yours sounds warmer, more friendly, more personal. You can use it when you are writing to a friend.

Best wishes, Clive

hi...

I came across this doubt too...

I wrote sicerely yours, but I think that it implies more intimacy than yours sincerely....

anyway if you have doubts put best regards, and this should solve the question

best regards,

Milena

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00If it ends 'Yours sincerely', this tells me nothing about the 

Yours sincerely is British form
Sincerely yours is Standard US English form

Yours faithfully is for people you don't address by name (as another poster pointed out)

Sincerely,
Best,
Best wishes,
etc. all much more informal and not often seen on formal correspondence because they strike the wrong tone. Common in advertising/junk mail though.

There's not a real difference between them. They're both American ways of ending commercial letters...British people would use "Yours faithfully"

Chiara