| Summary: | straits n pl Not for DNE: this seems a matter of usage. People don't want to abbreviate the "technical" name to the singular _strait_. But they are changing the meaning. The singular is perhaps a sweep of water, but _Straits_ is two neighbouring coasts joined by intervening water The plural is the usual form in all historical works I've been reading lately. DNE Sup WK G. M. Story DEC 1 1987 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used straits fish, straits fishery, NORTHERN FISHERY, straits ~dog Listed as DNE Sup but not used. Editor's notes written in cited quotation.
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