The word "sakes" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal expression used to express surprise, emphasis, or contempt. For example, "Oh, sakes alive! I can't believe it took him two hours to finish the project."
Perhaps people who care for literature and art for their own sakes will regret that they should be degraded by connection with the strife of parties.
For their sakes, we can't let it happen.
WINE LIST Fascinating and not prohibitively expensive collections of wines (heavy on the whites) and sakes.
Now it is Germany's turn to lead its weaker allies, for their sakes and for its own.
Willem Buiter, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, dismisses the deficit and debt limits as "fiscal numerology".The accession countries need to get to grips with their budgets for their own sakes.
For their own sakes, Scottish voters should reject their political snake-oil.Britain once ran the world.
This is not the time to argue about walking away, not just for their sakes, but for ours.But after that present-day pragmatism came the promise of future action:Thirdly, and crucially, there is a danger that by raising the prospect of a referendum, including an in/out option, we will miss the real opportunity to further our national interest.
Undeniably human as he was, the idea that one day we'd be without him -- that he'd be gone before Ozzy, for heaven's sakes -- had never even crossed our minds.
For all our sakes, just pack her off to a school for delinquents somewhere far, far away.
But for all our sakes, let's hope the body isn't around for long this time".
It is as well, for their own sakes, that the managing director of England cricket, Hugh Morris and the national selector, Geoff Miller, have already departed.
