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FYI, because I learned this the same way: It's buried the lede. As in the first sentence of the article.
I’m sorry to be this way, but both are acceptable. Lede has never been formally or universally adopted, and is more a remnant of an industry effort toward low-context clarity due to the word being a homonym. There are countless records of journalists using the traditional spelling when using in the context of writing an article.
Again, I hate myself for being like this.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being pedantic. In my case, it bugs me really bad that people say 110/220 for USA mains voltage. The standard has been 120/240 volts but there is a tolerance on both sides so the older 110/220 are still within specs. But the tolerance is defined from the nominal values of 120/240.
I work with electricity constantly, and never could figure out the discrepancy. I do see 115 quite a bit on elecronics as well. Tbh it always confused me. I guess i learned something today.
Devices probably designed to work with both 110 and 120 mains?
That is unless it's a system that is wye three phase, in which case it's 120/208..... While we're being pedantic.
Even more pedantic, the proper writing convention (rarely used) would be 208Y/120 🤓