Ok, thanks to you both.
-- Alvaro On 21-01-2009, at 20:42, Noah Salzman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > >> 2009/1/21 Alvaro García <[email protected]>: >>> 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
