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Point of information...... why lede and not lead?
I am involved is a semi controversy over the usage difference.
could you kindly shed some light would be much appreciated
Lede was newspaper jargon from when lead type was used. Spelled differently to avoid confusion.
It’s become trendy to use it more generally.
It could be both, I suppose. I had an aunt who was a journalist for a major city newspaper and that profession tends to talk about “lede.” It might have been to avoid confusion, in print, with the word “lead” (the element Pb) which is what linotype machines used to use to cast the printing type for newspapers. Then when technology went computerized and the Pb was no more, the convention stayed. Just my guess.