I do say so.
Granted, and thanks for the reference. The one I had at hand was
wiktionary, and that specifies the third one as a misspelling of led (as past tense and past participle of lead).
I must say I find it funny how similar this "lead" discussion is to the actual subject at hand, order of operations with respect to implicit multiplication, and how the word "wrong" can be used for effect.
Me, I was actually referring to the various pronunciations I've heard (IPA /lɛd/, /liːd/, /lid/), and didn't even realize I was implying they were three different words.
(That's typical of how I make errors in English: I read and write a lot, and check for typos and misspellings, but since I don't speak English often, I don't get the same feedback on such oddities as one would with face-to-face discussion. For example, English adjectives have a specific order: opinion – size – physical quality – shape – condition – age – color – pattern – origin – material – type – purpose. So, while saying "That's a big soft old red British felt teddybear" is
natural for native speakers, us non-native speakers can equally likely write just "That's a British felt old red soft big teddybear", which in a face to face discussion would show up in body language, and would help a non-native speaker to adjust their word order until it no longer causes such a reaction. Most English speakers follow that rule without even realizing it.)
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