[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Aug 13 19:33:39 UTC 2006


Timwi wrote:

>Steve Bennett wrote:
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>>On 7/28/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
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>>>>The last sentence of the lead,
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>>It actually can be spelt "lede".
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>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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