>>Thanks! Is the word "greetings" used in English? (As it is in other languages.)
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>Not in the US to end a letter, and these days, not usually to begin one either. Back when the US had a draft for the army, the letter a young man would receive letting him know he'd been drafted began with "Greetings." So there's a whole generation of us who have that association in our minds.
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>Tamar
Thanks; that is interesting information. Do you happen to know about how this is used outside the U.S.?
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
