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How to spell these

What it means: Used to refer to people or things nearby.

In a sentence: These apples are very tasty. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as thes or thees.

Same family: this, that, those, them. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “These” comes from Old English “thās,” the plural form of “this.” Over time, the spelling and pronunciation changed, but it has always been used to talk about more than one thing that is close by.

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