Timwi wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/28/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net 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. I am therefore inclined to suspect that someone made it up.
Timwi
It's in the OED as a variant used in the 14th-16th centuries.
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