[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Aug 13 19:41:20 UTC 2006


Steve Summit wrote:

>Timwi wrote:
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>
>>>>>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.
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>>
>
>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
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>	Lede is often spelled lead. The odd spelling was adopted...
>
>and Wikipedia's own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style
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>	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...
>
That mention in Wikipedia was undocumented too.

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