Lede vs Yede - What's the difference?
lede | yede |
A man; person.
Men; people, folk.
* 2012 , Yahoo! Canada Answers - Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?:
A people or nation.
Tenements]]; holdings; [[possession, possessions.
(chiefly US, journalism) The introductory]] [[paragraph, paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.
(obsolete) (go)
(obsolete or literary humouro) To go. (Used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators.)
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
As a noun lede
is a man; person or lede can be (chiefly us|journalism) the introductory]] [[paragraph|paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.As a verb yede is
(obsolete) (go).lede
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lede, leode, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(lede)- If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
(Lede paragraph) Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of (lead) (reverting to its archaic, phonetic spelling – compare below), intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame.WOTD 2000 Compare .Alternative forms
* leadNoun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "lede")Usage notes
Usage seems mostly confined to the U.S.Current citations in Wiktionary, listed ). In 1990, William Safire was still able to say that "lede" was jargon not listed in regular dictionaries.Safire 1990: "You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. [...] Will ''lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? [... To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing"Derived terms
* bury the lede * lede to kum * nuledeSee also
*References
* William Safire (1990),"On Language; (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)", New York Times , November 18, 1990, Nytimes.com * WOTD (2000),
"The Maven's Word of the Day: lede", November 28, 2000, www.randomhouse.com * Notes:
Anagrams
* * ----yede
English
Verb
(head)- The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed , / With that blacke Palmer, his most trusty guide [...].
