Would I be strait-laced if I protested this spelling on the Yahoo! front page?
The American Heritage Dictionary accepts straight-laced as a variant of the preferred spelling strait-laced. Strait means “tight, narrow, or constricted.” That’s the meaning here and in straitjacket, the spelling preferred over straightjacket.
It’s so nice to know that many revelers comply. Of course, because I learned that tidbit on Yahoo! Shine, I have no idea what they actually comply with:
Obviously, the writer used the wrong word. Just as she used the wrong word for an adult (an adult is a grownup) and for pompons (a cheerleader shakes those pompons or pompoms).
I would have overlooked straightjacket, even though the preferred spelling is straitjacket. But I can’t overlook this:
The the word that’s most frequently repeated on Yahoo! is the:
We don’t know what she’s selling, but it sure is not her writing ability:
Let’s get straight to the point: There is a homophonous mistake on Yahoo! TV‘s “Primetime in No Time”:
Let’s get this straight: A strait is a narrow channel between two bodies of water.
Terribly Write 