[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sun Aug 13 19:41:20 UTC 2006
Steve Summit wrote:
>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...
>
That mention in Wikipedia was undocumented too.
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