Several railway officers have assured me that a standard opening in railway official correspondence is: ‘Dear Sir, with reference to your above see my below’.More here.
Below can be used as a adverb: go below the deck; we saw the blue waters spread below us. But in IE we see the use of below as an attributive modifier of a noun — the below statement.
Louis Menand’s recent NYkr review essay (archived; ostensibly a review of
Stefan Fatsis’s Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern
Dictionary) ...
