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   From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com   
      
   On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:45:04 -0700, BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Liberal comedian Bill Maher scolded his audience this week for laughing   
   after   
   >> he talked about the second assassination attempt on former President Donald   
   >> Trump on Sunday.   
   >>   
   >> Maher made the remarks Friday evening on his HBO show REAL TIME while   
   >> talking about the attempt on Trump's life at Trump International Golf Club   
   >> West Palm Beach.   
   >>   
   >> "So let's not bury the lead," Maher said. "The big story this week, they   
   >> tried to shoot Trump again. Let's not--"   
   >   
   >The correct word is 'lede', not 'lead'. No wonder our language is going   
   >to hell if even journalists can't get this stuff right.   
      
   Never heard of the use of lede before, but this is a fairly decent   
   coverage.   
      
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph   
      
   A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States   
   sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book   
   chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas.[1]   
   Styles vary widely among the different types and genres of   
   publications, from journalistic news-style leads to a more   
   encyclopaedic variety.   
      
   The term is sometimes spelled "lede".[6] The Oxford English Dictionary   
   suggests this arose as an intentional misspelling of "lead", "in order   
   to distinguish the word's use in instructions to printers from   
   printable text,"[7] similarly to "hed" for "head(line)" and "dek" for   
   "deck". Some sources suggest the altered spelling was intended to   
   distinguish from the use of "lead" metal strips of various thickness   
   used to separate lines of type in 20th century typesetting.[8][9][1]   
   However, the spelling "lede" first appears in journalism manuals only   
   in the 1980s, well after lead typesetting's   
   heyday.[10][11][12][13][14][15][excessive citations] The earliest   
   appearance of "lede" cited by the OED is 1951.[7] According to   
   Grammarist, "lede" is "mainly journalism jargon".[16]   
      
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