On 11/29/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
The italic lightweight notes at the top of articles are "hatnotes" (per Wikipedia:Hatnote, in the Manual of Style). Anyone ready with the background of this term?
Just a guess, but if the footnote is named after the thing at the lowest point of the human body, then a hatnote could be named after the thing at the highest point.