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To: drewh

Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?


2 posted on 06/01/2016 9:49:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

that’s racist...


3 posted on 06/01/2016 9:50:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Ann Archy

They should report on all the BLM tweets just after it happened claiming that if it had been a black kid they would have let the Gorilla kill him. Then, of course, they find out it was a black kid. DUH!


5 posted on 06/01/2016 9:51:34 AM PDT by baxtelf
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To: Ann Archy
"Lede" is the correct term in journalism for the opening paragraph.
7 posted on 06/01/2016 9:51:50 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (So far, this is the oldest I've been.)
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To: Ann Archy
lede
n.

by 1965, alternative spelling of lead (n.2) 
in the newspaper journalism sense (see lead (v.)),
to distinguish this sense from other possible meanings 
of the written word, perhaps especially the molten 
lead (n.1) used in typesetting machines.

13 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:05 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Ann Archy

You are correct. It is short for “Lead paragraph” but somehow the spelling got changed.


14 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:27 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
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To: Ann Archy

It is correct......................


15 posted on 06/01/2016 9:54:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!..........................)
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To: Ann Archy

Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?
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Of course you are.
You are probably one of those privileged white folks that has never had to work a day in his life to achieve your millions. The fact is proven that you have far too much time on your hands where you can sit around and pick up on foibles such as this.

Then again, if you worked all your life and paid attention while the state was educating (before the ‘curve’) you, when words like ‘lede’ show up on a page and they virtually jump off the page and say ‘What are you going to do about it’.

Then again - I just looked to see if there is such a word as lede and LO & BEHOLD, SUFFERIN SUCCOTASH, HEAVENS TO MERGATROID , there is a word spelled L E D E and it means the LEDE column (read LEAD) column in an article or the teaser to entice you to read the whole article. Whodda thunk that...

Naturally this whole ‘waste of time’ is tongue in cheek and I am REALLY sad I found something that will enable to allow this so called journalist to get off the hook ALTHOUGH, I doubt the penner knows that - while pointing at his/her Journalist Degree...


28 posted on 06/01/2016 10:04:53 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Difference between man and animals is man can kill from a distance")
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To: Ann Archy; OrangeHoof

Lede is actually correct. But it is a bit surprising to find journalists that actually know that.


34 posted on 06/01/2016 10:14:21 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ann Archy

“Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?”

No, it’s “lede.” It is pronounced “leed,” though.


35 posted on 06/01/2016 10:17:15 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Ann Archy

Lede is more specifically correct, but lead is generically correct as well.


42 posted on 06/01/2016 10:48:31 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Ann Archy
Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?

You're in good company (me). Apparently the leading story is "the lede."

48 posted on 06/01/2016 10:56:43 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Ann Archy

Lede is correct.


58 posted on 06/01/2016 11:45:06 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Ann Archy
Lede??? I always thought it was Lead.....am I wrong?

Leading is the vertical spacing between lines of type, so called because traditionally strips of lead were used to create the space. "Lede" is an intentional misspelling to avoid confusion with the metal.

61 posted on 06/01/2016 1:05:59 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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