Way OT: A Pair of Fruits

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:11 PM, JAMES A. LANDAU <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
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>  >  Incidentally, does anyone outside the NY Times use the spelling "lede"?
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>  Seems so. Googits "about 171,000 for lede newspaper*".

For more on "lede", along with other journalistic respellings ("dek",
"graf", "hed", etc.), see Mark Liberman's Language Log post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004380.html


--Ben Zimmer

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