On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/1/21 Alvaro García alvareo@gmail.com:
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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