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[Andrew Gray]

2009/1/21 Alvaro García <alvareo at gmail.com>:
> Excuse me, a short question: With 'lede' you mean 'lead', right?

It's the same word; "lede" is a variant used to refer specifically to
the leading part of an article, and it seems to have slipped into
fairly common use on enwp. It's originally a journalism term, and
there's an explanation here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style#cite_note-1

"Lede (pronounced /ˈliːd/) is a traditional spelling, from the archaic
English, used to avoid confusion with the printing press type formerly
made from lead or the typographical term "leading"."

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk