“With best/kind regards” vs “Best/Kind regards”
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Closing an email with Regards, or Kind regards, is still very common in the UK, and not seen as old-fashioned there at all. Using the same in America may have a different reaction though; when I lived there before moving to Britain I thought it sounded old-fashioned as well.
As to why some Europeans add the “With” at the start, one could speculate it’s because they would do so in their own language. Dutch emails tend to close with “Met Vriendelijke Groeten”; German emails often use “Mit besten Grüßen” or “Mit freundlichen Empfehlungen”; Italian emails can have “Con i migliori auguri”. Perhaps it’s just carried over from that.
