Ted MacNeil wrote:

You're an enthusiastic prosletisor of the panacea you believe in!

If Mr MacNeil is going to be pretentious he has an obligation to get
his pretentions right.  The word 'prosletisor' is not one.  Someone
who proselytises|proselytizes is a proselytiser|proselytizer.

Moreover, while Shakespeare did of course get alliteration right in
Sonnet XXX, the unlettered should avoid it.  They are all but certain
to produce only doggerel, as here, when they attempt it.

I suppose that I should be grateful that our American near monopoly on
the use of subliterate constructs has been broken, but I am not.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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