A comment about ongoing war is replied with spelling pedantics? Yes while even mapmakers etc during 1500-1700's sometimes used "Straight", the subsequent stand

A comment about ongoing war is replied with spelling pedantics? Yes while even mapmakers etc during 1500-1700's sometimes used "Straight", the subsequent standardizations in English selected "Strait" as the standard spelling. How would you know if English is or isn't my first language?