Ooh, yes, me too, and I very much like ‘Very best’ for the assonance. And ‘All my best’ has a lovely ring. I’m perfectly comfortable, too, with just ‘All best’ or ‘Best’. But I wouldn’t dive in straight away with any of these usually; and sometimes when an exchange unexpectedly turns into a lengthy correspondence where the sign off escalates each time I find myself with nowhere left to go. My super-duper-better-than-yours-fabulous-best?
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I like the email sign off "All the best" - but only when I really mean it!
Ooh, yes, me too, and I very much like ‘Very best’ for the assonance. And ‘All my best’ has a lovely ring. I’m perfectly comfortable, too, with just ‘All best’ or ‘Best’. But I wouldn’t dive in straight away with any of these usually; and sometimes when an exchange unexpectedly turns into a lengthy correspondence where the sign off escalates each time I find myself with nowhere left to go. My super-duper-better-than-yours-fabulous-best?