Ledgering or Legering?

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Which is right?

Spurred on by the two repeated variations in spelling which occasionally crop up I thought I would ask the question.

To me a ledger is something that keeps a running total of amounts as in book keeping and leger is the weight used in fishing.

What d'ya reckon?
 
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Depending on the era in which you mean then t can be . . . either

Back in the 50's we only had 3 types of large weight; bullet, spiral or coffin shaped, with only the coffin leads really used for "ledgering" while the drilled bullet and spirals mostly used to spinning . . . . . .

The early meaning of "ledger" was a large flat stone laid over filled-in graves in some arid countries.

If follows that those early coffin lead were referred to as "Ledgers" and the method was known as "ledgering"

I am unsure as to when the more modern "Leger" came into being but from at least the 80's onward it seems to have changed to "legering"
 
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On the FM spellcheck "legering" comes up as a miss spelling, on offer are:-
leering
levering
lingering
lettering
fingering
 
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I prefer leger to ledger; both have roots in old French with a meaning 'to lay'. Leger can be found from the 50s (Walker) though not all authors preferred it. Colin Dyson still used ledger in the 70s.
 
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I have always spelt it "ledgering" no idea why.

There are other things in angling that have different ways to describe them one I have always wondered about is when casting is the angler casting in or casting out?
 
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S-Kippy said:
Do people actually use the term any more ? I'm far more likely to say I was "on the lead" or "on the tip/feeder" than "I was ledgering".

That said its ledgering for me. Leger is a horse race.
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Isn't that horse race called the St Leger ??

It's the lead to me.
 
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