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In this edit, "straight-laced" was arbitrarily changed to "strait-laced", which I reverted after doing some research.
This is a common thread in other dictionaries. Wikipedia doesn't generally prefer one spelling over another but it does say that spelling shouldn't be arbitrarily changed and that we shouldn't use archaic spellings except in quotes. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 05:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
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In this edit, "straight-laced" was arbitrarily changed to "strait-laced", which I reverted after doing some research.
This is a common thread in other dictionaries. Wikipedia doesn't generally prefer one spelling over another but it does say that spelling shouldn't be arbitrarily changed and that we shouldn't use archaic spellings except in quotes. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 05:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)