Google Ngram shows high occurence in the 1800s with two peaks around 1815 and 1860, and then heavily declining usage. Perhaps looking prior to the 1900s would

Google Ngram shows high occurence in the 1800s with two peaks around 1815 and 1860, and then heavily declining usage. Perhaps looking prior to the 1900s would be a more accurate option? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lede&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Clede%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Blede%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BLede%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BLEDE%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lede&case_inse... EDIT: Never mind I graphed them both -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388239