Plural of Yes
How do I correctly write YES as a plural. Example: # of Yes’s.
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Owen
January 19, 2013, 10:47am
I'd be more inclined to go for 'yes's as then you are acknowledging that there technically is no plural of 'yes'
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Pigletta_sub
October 18, 2012, 2:32am
Retired English Teacher: I believe your rule applies only to numbers (in numeral form, not spelt out) and single letters, not words. So your first example (3's) is correct, but your second (that's) isn't. It's yeses.
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Stevie
September 17, 2012, 4:07am
Glad retired English teacher is retired. A bit of work on apostrophes and use of italics required. See me after class. Yeses, as in buses.
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april
August 22, 2012, 1:52pm
Too funny, before I looked at this website, I sent a response to a coworker using every single answer on this page...Wow what a pain the in the english! Thanks for your approval...
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2daysgone
February 18, 2012, 5:16am
My original instinct was yeses. As long as its acceptable - I'm happy.
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Faaga
December 14, 2011, 3:47pm
Vot or me please
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Faaga
December 14, 2011, 3:46pm
Yesses is correct
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Retired English teacher
November 30, 2011, 7:30am
There is one snag to this discussion. When referring to an actual word or number, the word is italicized and then an apostrophe s is added. For example, My phone number has two 3's in it. You have too many that's in your sentence. So I think it should be yes's. But then there is the rule that when a noun ends in s, the plural is formed by adding -es. So it could be yes'es but that looks funny. I will check various dictionaries.
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malsawma
October 9, 2011, 5:39am
yes plural is AYES, this is correct
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hmmm
June 9, 2011, 2:28pm
AGREED... ?
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painintheenglish
July 21, 2010, 5:13pm
The Oxford American Dictionary accepts both yeses and yesses. Also gases and gasses. Compare "bus" and "buses" and I think "yeses" gets the win.
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douglas.bryant
July 21, 2010, 1:32pm
The correct plural is yeses. Nouns ending in -s (focus or excess, for example) generally are made plural simply by adding -es.
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scyllacat
July 21, 2010, 11:48am
I believe "Yesses" is correct. It looks really funny, I know.
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