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.
It's there without evidence, so I've moved that definition to the talk page until someone can come up with proper evidence of this usage.
I could only find evidence for it as a Middle English variant of "lead" in both pronunciations.
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