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Multiple persons adressed
[edit]I'm missing a rule how to adress more than one known recipient. As far as I know, it's done in the following way: Dear Mr Jones, Mr Smith and Mr Jonson: but I am no native speaker, and I did not find anything in the sources.
Translation dictionary?
[edit]Salutations in languages other than English should not be included in this article. I seek a new consensus to remove them. Riposte97 (talk) 12:03, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
- Object, no policy-based reason has been provided ... and your removal after waiting over a day without objections is nowhere near good enough. Graham87 (talk) 15:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Graham, the policy is WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Wikipedia is not a phrase book. This page (and Valediction) are essentially structured as guides to language-learners. Riposte97 (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- I have waited ten months and will proceed. Riposte97 (talk) 07:45, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Graham, the policy is WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Wikipedia is not a phrase book. This page (and Valediction) are essentially structured as guides to language-learners. Riposte97 (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
BrE vs AmE
[edit]According to Swan, M. (2017). Practical English Usage (BrE):
In British English, it is unusual for a capital letter to follow a colon, except at the beginning of a quotation or with several complete sentences. In American English, colons are more often followed by capital letters, e.g., after the opening salutation in a business letter:
Dear Mr. Callan : We write to...
However, British usage prefers a comma or no punctuation mark at all in this case.
How is it jusfifiable to end a salutation with a comma, or even no punctuation at all, before a Capital letter in a new line? Notice that, e.g., questions marks (?) and colons (:) do feature a full stop typographically. JMGN (talk) 20:01, 27 December 2025 (UTC)