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How to spell yes

hear ityes/jɛs/interjectionStarter

What it means: Used to show agreement or give a positive answer.

In a sentence: "Yes, I would love to play outside!"

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as yas or yess.

Same family: yeses, say, agree, agreement. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Yes comes from Old English 'gēse' or 'gēa', which were words used to show agreement. Over time, the spelling and sound changed, but English has used some form of 'yes' for over a thousand years.

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