Timwi 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
anything but dictionaries.
Random House publishes dictionaries; therefore I class them as a dictionary site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House sayeth:
Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by its first unabridged dictionary. It publishes today the Random House Webster's Unabridged and Random House Webster's College dictionaries, probably the main competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles.
Timwi wrote:
Also see adam's reply :)
Just because it's "archaic" doesn't mean it's wrong; Americans should be well aware of this, given the "archaic" forms of words which are now found primarily in American English, while Commonwealth English adopted more "modern" French-derived words or spellings.