"alphabetitis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1741, General Magazine and Historical Chronicle: Vol. XLIV Numb. I.:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "text": "A case of alphabetitis—or algebritis.",
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          "text": "Chemists, you see, are also affected with \"alphabetitis.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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