On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/1/21 Alvaro García <alva...@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"."
The NY Times has a "Lede" column. Their note on the name is as follows: In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to as its "lede" -- spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper printing presses. Every sentence in a news story, though, has the potential to spiral off in new directions, and that's where The Lede's mission begins. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... .. . _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
