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As 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 almos
by donatj 6y ago
As 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."