McLeansvilleAppFan t1_j7c7sfs wrote
"buried the lede" is a term in journalism. Never heard this term in the context of property and real estate.
Brickie78 t1_j7ccatg wrote
To expand, "lede" is used instead of "lead", as in the "leading paragraph" of a story. Merriam Webster explains
> Spelling the word as lede helped copyeditors, typesetters, and others in the business distinguish it from its homograph lead (pronounced \led\ ), which also happened to refer to the thin strip of metal separating lines of type (as in a Linotype machine). Since both uses were likely to come up frequently in a newspaper office, there was a benefit to spelling the two words distinctly.
To "bury the lede" in the expression which has relatively recently gone mainstream, is to ignore the main fact and focus on an unimportant detail. Posters on r/amitheasshole, for instance, often bury the lede by omitting crucial details that show the situation in a very different light once revealed.
osberend t1_j7cay5n wrote
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the whole reason it's spelled "lede" is to distinguish it from "lead" (as in, the metal), because of the latter's role in (historical) typesetting.
ramriot t1_j7chord wrote
That is my understanding, the use of lede for this meaning was for instructions to the printer in such a way that inclusion is a typographic mistake.
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QuickSpore t1_j7cy867 wrote
The modern spelling of lede is super recent. When I was in my journalism program in the 1990s it was almost always “bury the lead.” It’s only after about 2000 that the industry switched over to the lede spelling.
BeatlesTypeBeat t1_j7d2061 wrote
This page says it was first used in 1965 but I could see it taking a few decades to catch on everywhere.
QuickSpore t1_j7d3g84 wrote
That wouldn’t surprise me. Things can have decades long backgrounds before they become commonly known.
It definitely wasn’t in use at my school, my internships, or my first couple jobs. It’s interesting that according to Merriam-Webster they didn’t recognize lede as an appropriate variant spelling till 2008. That vibes with my experience trying to stay in the journalism industry.
pontonpete t1_j7cajhu wrote
Ya. J instructor would fail me for burying the lead.
WellHacktually t1_j7dkmo6 wrote
Yes, OP is aware of that. Read the post. They were manually sorting out and excluding search results where the "lead" in question was the metal, rather than the salient fact in a news piece, and noticed a lot of references to physical burying of lead to mark property boundaries.
McLeansvilleAppFan t1_j7dxaxk wrote
I know and I was just pointing out that any other reference would be VERY obscure it would seem. Hence my comment, "(I) Never heard this term in the context..."
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