Timwi wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
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
anything but dictionaries.
Random House publishes dictionaries; therefore I class them as a
dictionary site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House sayeth:
Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with
the American
College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by its first unabridged
dictionary. It publishes today the Random House Webster's Unabridged and
Random House Webster's College dictionaries, probably the main
competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles.
Timwi wrote:
Also see adam's reply :)
Just because it's "archaic" doesn't mean it's wrong; Americans
should be
well aware of this, given the "archaic" forms of words which are now
found primarily in American English, while Commonwealth English adopted
more "modern" French-derived words or spellings.
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