Forgive me.. perhaps I missed something.. but what does this have to do with medical advice?
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On 8/14/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net 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 to
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128
lede... refers to the opening lines of a newspaper article, also called the "lead."
http://www.uark.edu/~kshurlds/FOJ/HW2.html
Lede is often spelled lead. The odd spelling was adopted...
and Wikipedia's own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style
The most important structural element of a story is the lead -- namely contained in the story's first sentence (sometimes spelled lede to avoid confusion with...
That mention in Wikipedia was undocumented too.
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