Comments on: Chess kids http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=80 An occasional journal of ideas and work by Michael Fitzgerald Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Michael http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=80#comment-1840 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:20:25 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=80#comment-1840 My lead anecdote, which featured an intense state championship match between the two main characters and referred to them as going mano a mano (at least as mano as 10-year old boys can be), prompted some reader complaints that I was playing fast and loose with the language, by misusing mano a mano (literally, hand to hand or one on one). That led to this follow-up column by the Globe's wordsmith: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/15/fighting_words/ My lead anecdote, which featured an intense state championship match between the two main characters and referred to them as going mano a mano (at least as mano as 10-year old boys can be), prompted some reader complaints that I was playing fast and loose with the language, by misusing mano a mano (literally, hand to hand or one on one).

That led to this follow-up column by the Globe’s wordsmith:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/15/fighting_words/

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