Lude vs Lede - What's the difference?
lude | lede |
(obsolete) Sound, noise, clamor
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.
Lede is a alternative form of lude.
As nouns the difference between lude and lede
is that lude is sound, noise, clamor while lede is a man; person.lude
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Noun
(luden)- Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora lude .'' — ''Layamon's Brut
- Þa luden heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden.'' — ''Layamon's Brut
Etymology 2
From QuaaludeEtymology 3
From PreludeAnagrams
* ----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: