Professor of Grammar getting on my tits

[TheMythicalChicken]

OK, so we have this professor who works for us. He went to Oxford and his specialist subject is English grammar. Because of this, everything we send out has to be approved by him. Fine. I actually thought I might learn something as I find grammar very interesting. However, I am becoming increasingly sceptical of his talents.

Today, he changed “Yours sincerely” to “yours Sincerely”. Surely this isn’t right? He went on a whole mansplaining tirade about how it was correct. So, is he right? I really need to know.

Thanks pedants.

Historically, Sincerely was capitalised - I don't know why he would change 'yours' to lower case though, that's not correct.

I would say that either Yours Sincerely or Yours sincerely is fine. I'm all in favour of correct grammar but this really is being pedantic.

I agree with you. In fact I think I recall from secretarial college ‘Sincerely’ being capitalized. But the ‘yours’ thing... I think he’s wrong.