Can't be bothered to make the changes, but the two noun senses are clearly related, both from the latin Legendum (?) meaning "something read."
Does anyone really say the second definition differently from the first? I don't think it's a typo or he would not gone to the trouble of putting the pronunciation under the part of speech. The Webster 1913 source shows only one entry (one pronunciation, one etymology) covering both modern meanings.
If so, what dialect?
- I've never heard it, and modern dictionaries don't list any phonetic split there either. It may be an idiosyncratic pronunciation by whoever first posted it. —Muke Tever 20:51, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Looks like rubbish to me. I also don't know what a schwa with a breve over it is supposed to mean. — Hippietrail 22:47, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- That mark over any vowel means "extra short".
- Where can I find a linguistic article on contrastive schwa length in English? I've certainly never heard of it or seen it before, and though the breve is a common symbol in American dictionaries it wasn't part of IPA last time I looked. — Hippietrail 23:26, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- [1], under Suprasegmentals.
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Sense7, recently added by an anon.: "a fabricated backstory for spies". -- WikiPedant 02:35, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- Cited so passed. Equinox ◑ 00:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)