what I meant is http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/straight vs
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/strait

but I was wrong about strait-laced, actually listed on its own, thank
you.    

Maybe strait-laced does make better sense?  Or maybe it's my 60s
street-definition of straight which really indicates strait-laced, as in
confined to narrow straits, not necessarily straight?

Tracy learn something new every day if you start out dumb enough Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam Dorritie
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: Things you didn't know
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> On 2/10/06, Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > ...(and whose authors, btw, don't seem  to know the 
> difference between strait and straight;-):
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by that...
> 
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=straitlaced
> http://www1.bartleby.com/62/16/S1461600.html
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/27/S0792700.html
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