‘a polemist produces pamphlets like a plum plum’: such a statement implies the assimilation of ‘pamphlet’ to ‘polemic’ and ‘pamphletary’ to ‘polemist’. In common use, only more or less pejorative connotations seem to distinguish pamphlet from controversy: this would well be seen as a polemist who would not want to be regarded as a pamphlerist, as if there were more or less permitted levels in the invective. We are talking about exam...