dees

Dees is the plural form of the spoken letter name "dee," which is the name of the letter D in the English alphabet. In discussions of spelling, typography, and phonetics, dees is used to refer to multiple instances of the letter D. The term appears in educational contexts, word games, and analyses of orthography. For example, the word address contains two dees.

Pronunciation and usage notes: the letter name dee is pronounced /diː/, while the sound of the letter D in words is the consonant /d/. The plural form dees is used when speaking about more than one letter D in a word or across a text.

In culture and sport, the Dees is a common nickname. In Australian rules football, the Melbourne Football Club is popularly known as the Dees, a shorthand used by fans and media alike to refer to the team, the Melbourne Demons.

Other uses are primarily as a proper noun or part of a name. Dees can appear as a surname or in place names and organizations, though these uses are less common than the basic linguistic sense. Overall, dees holds for the simple linguistic reference to multiple D letters, with occasional usage as a nickname or identifier in culture and sport.