Alphabetitis

"You handle the alphabet like a veteran New Dealer" — To which I answered — "God forbid," He continued — "If the audience can survive that attack of 'alphabetitis' they can stand anything."

A case of alphabetitis—or algebritis.

Chemists, you see, are also affected with "alphabetitis."

Yet I must not violate the sense of our Aphorism by pretending for even a moment that this puny seizure of alphabetitis is peculiar to our own time.