I just came across this interesting discussion on Hacker News of this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16387567 Two points: Somebody looked up lede in their OED and found it's earliest ...
Lead vs. Lede |
legislature to enact the nation’s first omnibus local government open meeting law. He wrote its lead, so to speak, as well—the work of an afternoon, we’re told, with Carpenter sitting acro...
I've been a journalist for 35 years and today is the first time I've ever seen the word "Lede." It's a modern creation, apparently done by mistake and repeated by others.
my most important life lessons that has served me in both of these fields is to not bury the lead (or lede). It comes from a Nora Ephron book, though I first saw it when I read Made to Stick in
in my post on lead-writing why I’ve stopped spelling it that way. Howard Owens has a good explanation, too. King Kaufman favors “lede.” I don’t care much, but I have to choose a way
It should be lead as in the leading paragraph, or the leader. A lot of words are spelled alike and you know what is by context. Changing the spelling was unnecessary since few would confuse it wi...
Y'know, you could have just looked it up in a dictionary. It says on various online dictionary sites that "lede" is spelled such to differentiate it from the "lead", the strips of metal separatin...
Everyone used the term lede in the late 50s and early 60s, when I worked at the Evening and Sunday Bulletin, Philadelphia, and in the late 60s, 70s and 80s as an editor for Intercounty Newspaper ...
You seem to be conservative.Don't you want new word inventions? But you are quick to embrace technological inventions! Languages are not static,they keep on growing.