On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/1/21 Alvaro García <alvareo(a)gmail.com>om>:
Excuse me, a short question: With 'lede'
you mean 'lead', right?
It's the same word; "lede" is a variant used to refer specifically to
the leading part of an article, and it seems to have slipped into
fairly common use on enwp. It's originally a journalism term, and
there's an explanation here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style#cite_note-1
"Lede (pronounced /ˈliːd/) is a traditional spelling, from the
archaic
English, used to avoid confusion with the printing press type formerly
made from lead or the typographical term "leading"."
The NY Times has a "Lede" column. Their note on the name is as follows:
In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to
as its "lede" -- spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid
confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper
printing presses. Every sentence in a news story, though, has the
potential to spiral off in new directions, and that's where The Lede's
mission begins.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/
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