“Pompatous” or “Pompitous”?

A reader questioned my use of the latter in today’s Slice.

I’ll write him back. But I don’t think there is anything I can add to the exhaustive back-and-forth on this to be found online.

Of course, if you are unfamiliar with Steve Miller’s “The Joker” I suppose you won’t have any idea what I’m talking about here.

Probably not the first time.