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It’s actually “lede” [1] > A lede is the introductory section in journalism and thus to bury the lede refers to hiding the most important and relevant pieces o
by nojs 6y ago
It’s actually “lede” [1]
> A lede is the introductory section in journalism and thus to bury the lede refers to hiding the most important and relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information. The spelling of lede is allegedly so as to not confuse it with lead (/led/) which referred to the strip of metal that would separate lines of type. Both spellings, however, can be found in instances of the phrase.
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...
- donatj 6y agoAs far as I can tell “lede” is entirely a relatively unpopular neologism being unnecessarily pushed, and the phrase spelled “bury the lead” outdates it by almost 100 years? Lede is just lead spelled incorrectly with the same meaning. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_end=2019&year_start=1800&smoothing=3&content=bury+the+lead%2C+bury+the+lede&corpus=26&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbury%20the%20lead%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbury%20the%20lede%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_end=2019&year_sta...
- lern_too_spel 6y ago"Bury the lead" shows up in books as part of "bury the lead cable."