New 4-Letter Vocabulary Word

   I learned a new word today, one of the four letter sort.  The word is "lede."  It's an alteration of "lead," a word used in the newspaper business to entice the reader to read a story.  It seems the intent is to distinguish its meaning  as an introduction to a newspaper column.  Otherwise potential readers or, I suppose, column writers, if they're told to write the opening to a story, might be confused and think they're being  told  to lead a band or parade, or load their guns.  There is a solution to every problem, even if that solution is an ugly word.