Actually, they called attention to that themselves. Believe it or not, "strait-laced" is now the standard way of spelling it, and "straight-laced" is the variant (not wrong, just an alternative). Historically, you'd be 100% correct, but this is an example of how language degrades evolves. Online discourse is only speeding the process up. http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/corpus-2/
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Date: 2009-04-24 02:18 pm (UTC)Actually, they called attention to that themselves. Believe it or not, "strait-laced" is now the standard way of spelling it, and "straight-laced" is the variant (not wrong, just an alternative). Historically, you'd be 100% correct, but this is an example of how language
degradesevolves. Online discourse is only speeding the process up.http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/corpus-2/