Timwi wrote:
>>The last sentence of the lead,
>>
>>
It actually can be spelt "lede".
I couldn't find any dictionary that agrees with this other than
Wiktionary.
How hard did you look? The first three google hits are to
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128
lede... refers to the opening lines of a newspaper
article, also called the "lead."
http://www.uark.edu/~kshurlds/FOJ/HW2.html
Lede is often spelled lead. The odd spelling was adopted...
and Wikipedia's own
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style
The most important structural element of a story is the
lead -- namely contained in the story's first sentence
(sometimes spelled lede to avoid confusion with...
That mention in Wikipedia was undocumented too.
Ec
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