Re: Syllepsis exemption

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> Ron Hardin wrote:
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> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > Ron Hardin wrote:
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> > > > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > > > > What is this "lede" that you two are using?
> > > >
> > > > It distinguishes one sense of ``lead'' where otherwise there is insufficient
> > > > clue which is meant in the context. It was supposed it was to distinguish
> > > > it from the metal Pb also used in printing, but it's worth more than that,
> > > > it turns out.
> > >
> > > Not in the 10th Collegiate.
> > >
> > > > ``Lead'' means opening lines of a newspaper story.
> > >
> > > There was no possibility of misconstruction of that word if it had been
> > > spelled <lead> not <lede>, plus it would have been immediately
> > > comprehensible.
> >
> > But ''lede'' winds up meaning the opening lines owing to cases where you'd start
> > with the metal and have to correct yourself, and so it's a word for the opening lines.
> >
> > Thus faults like ``burying the lede'' that are instantly comprehensible
> > where ``burying the lead'' would not be.
>
> ?

It's common in the NYT, for eg. good news from Iraq.
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