[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

[adam]

Timwi wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>> On 7/28/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at 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.
>
> Timwi

It's in the OED as a variant used in the 14th-16th centuries.

adam