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As an undergraduate journalism major who never worked as a journalist, I also remember learning that “headline” was often shortened to “head,” but was spelled “
by peatmoss 9y ago
As an undergraduate journalism major who never worked as a journalist, I also remember learning that “headline” was often shortened to “head,” but was spelled “hed.”
At least according to one of my J-school profs who had come from industry. So, uh, take all that with a grain of salt, even though I believe it to probably be true.
- peatmoss 9y agoAn an aside, the context we were given for “hed” and “lede” was that both were whimsical in-jokes / jargon among old timers, and that if we wanted to appear skookum, we should at least be aware of this tradition.