MSN: George Strait Has Had a Legendary Country Music Career. Now He’s a Kennedy Center Honoree
George Strait Has Had a Legendary Country Music Career. Now He’s a Kennedy Center Honoree
MyHighPlains on MSN: Let’s Talk About It: ‘Strait Talk’ on the King of Country Music’s top 10 songs
Let’s Talk About It: ‘Strait Talk’ on the King of Country Music’s top 10 songs
Peninsula Daily News: Music on the Strait founders, guest pianist to perform at Field Hall
Music on the Strait founders, guest pianist to perform at Field Hall
Did you know? strait or straight? Straight and strait are homophones (“one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling”), and many people are in the habit of confusing such creatures, particularly when used in fixed phrases.
A strait is a narrow sea channel or a difficult situation — remember that both are difficult to navigate. If you're stranded on a strait off the Black Sea, you might also say that you're in dire straits.
STRAIT definition: 1. a narrow area of sea that connects two larger areas of sea: 2. a difficult situation…. Learn more.
You can refer to a narrow strip of sea which joins two large areas of sea as a strait or the straits. An estimated 1600 vessels pass through the strait annually.
a. Narrow or confined. b. Fitting tightly; constricted. 3. Strict, rigid, or righteous. [Middle English streit, narrow, a strait, from Old French estreit, tight, narrow, from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere, to draw tight; see streig- in Indo-European roots.]