Is "Many thanks" a proper usage?
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00:00 Is &Quot;Many Thanks&Quot; A Proper Usage?
00:38 Answer 1 Score 1
01:17 Accepted Answer Score 44
01:32 Answer 3 Score 0
01:52 Answer 4 Score 3
02:09 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 44
Yes, many thanks is perfectly proper, grammatical, standard English. It is appropriate to use wherever "thanks" (as opposed to "thank you") would be acceptable.
ANSWER 2
Score 3
It is heard several times every morning on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: it is the standard closing that they use after interviewing somebody.
ANSWER 3
Score 1
It all depends on your perspective. You can break it down far enough so that there's no way it's proper: What is a "thank?" Can such a thing be pluralized? Taken on its own, "many thanks" is a sentence fragment, and thus not truly proper.
In common use, though, I'd say it's a standard closing for a communication, like "With kind regards, Joe Blow" and is entirely acceptable (though I admit that I don't care for using things like "many thanks" without also including the sender's name as a signature). It's vernacular, which is to say it's how the language is used, regardless of how proper it is grammatically speaking.
ANSWER 4
Score 0
I use it all the time. I consider it shorthand for both "thank you very much" and "thank you in advance" and hence works at the end of almost any e-mail.