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Which noun form of lead can be “buried,” such that the sentence has prepositional phrase agreement? Talkin’ 'bout physically burying something underneath backfill.
With lead, I’ll concede people have fucked it up enough in modern usage to warrant entry in the dictionary, but it’s a quatiary definition, 2(f)(1). Even that definition literally ends in a coda, says “go look up LEDE, you f’n goofball.”
And for lede? It’s not numbered, lettered, and numbered again, because it’s the only thing lede means. “Bury the lede.” What a sentence. Evokes the typesetter sitting over the moveable type press, laying out every character, with the most important feature of the story down, below a bunch of fill. It’s how you should write. Clear, concise. Good diction. I may die on this hill a hero.
Acceptable maybe, but one is more correct. And lede is more correct because of what it evokes, the typesetter moving the lines of movable type, literally burying the lede.
It was in fact used by typesetters as jargon in the linotype era. And when it entered the lexicon more broadly, it had a very specific meaning, the same meaning which it still has.
Listen. It’s fine if you want to use a less correct word. When it comes to word choice, as matters of diction as opposed to word choice as matters of style, I go to the dictionary, specifically Webster. For style, I go to CMoS, which says either is acceptable.
When you go to the dictionary for lead, this definition of “lead” is quaternary, was added in 2008, and tells you to go look at “lede.” Lede is the exact correct word choice for the phrase “bury the lede.”
Well then. Let’s check the authority on diction…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bury
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lead
Which noun form of lead can be “buried,” such that the sentence has prepositional phrase agreement? Talkin’ 'bout physically burying something underneath backfill.
With lead, I’ll concede people have fucked it up enough in modern usage to warrant entry in the dictionary, but it’s a quatiary definition, 2(f)(1). Even that definition literally ends in a coda, says “go look up LEDE, you f’n goofball.”
And for lede? It’s not numbered, lettered, and numbered again, because it’s the only thing lede means. “Bury the lede.” What a sentence. Evokes the typesetter sitting over the moveable type press, laying out every character, with the most important feature of the story down, below a bunch of fill. It’s how you should write. Clear, concise. Good diction. I may die on this hill a hero.
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Acceptable maybe, but one is more correct. And lede is more correct because of what it evokes, the typesetter moving the lines of movable type, literally burying the lede.
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It was in fact used by typesetters as jargon in the linotype era. And when it entered the lexicon more broadly, it had a very specific meaning, the same meaning which it still has.
Listen. It’s fine if you want to use a less correct word. When it comes to word choice, as matters of diction as opposed to word choice as matters of style, I go to the dictionary, specifically Webster. For style, I go to CMoS, which says either is acceptable.
When you go to the dictionary for lead, this definition of “lead” is quaternary, was added in 2008, and tells you to go look at “lede.” Lede is the exact correct word choice for the phrase “bury the lede.”