[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

[Steve Summit]

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...