Me: “Err, Dabelle. Do you know that you have a worm on your sombrero?”
Dabelle: “Yebo, yes! He’s my new friend. Cute isn’t he?”
Me: “Yeeebo, I guess so, if you like that kind of thing! I like your hat by the way!”
The South African Word of the Day
Yebo [yeh-boh] – yes. Often expressed as a double positive by combining it with the English “yes” as in: “Yebo, Yes!” or as an extremely expressive “Yeeebo!” This Zulu word is used regularly in South Africa to show agreement or approval with something or someone.
Does your country have any other ways of saying “yes”?
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