To Jameses O'Hara and Franklin: To continue being off-topic, one thing I can answer, having spent years among journalists:
lede is spelled that way so as not to confuse it with the various pronunciations and meanings of lead (lead pencil, lead on Macduff...). Similarly, the word for headline is hed, as in that marvelous bit of magazine I used to see at Time-Warner: HED IS NOT ART and other bits of printer talk. Then, of course, there's TK which stands for TO KOME and indicates a fact that you don't yet have at your fingertips but you don't want to stop writing at the moment to fetch, sometimes written KOMING, as in Marivaux died in 17TK or Bach had KOMING sisters and brothers. Regards. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body.
