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ineedasername on Oct 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies

>"I am, &c.,"

I've never heard that before, is it cultural/regional? (Compared to US)

tkgally on Oct 28, 2021 | [–]

Samuel Johnson, among others in 18th-century Britain, used it:

https://archive.org/details/lettersjohnson01hilluoft/page/n2...

happytoexplain on Oct 28, 2021 | | [–]

I've only seen it from Americans, actually (though I am one, so not much evidence that it is strictly American).

klodolph on Oct 28, 2021 | [–]

It is archaic.

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