Judy Millar
Feb 14, 2022

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I once wrote a limerick about poetry and metre by "inventing" this very same word (attractyl):

The amphibrach said to the dactyl,

“Your front-loaded accent’s attractyl.

I dated a trochee

Once, up in Muskokee,

But we were too young to get tactyl.”

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Judy Millar
Judy Millar

Written by Judy Millar

Canadian humour writer. Comedic storyteller. Overthinker. 😂 Words in Reader’s Digest 🇨🇦, Writer’s Digest, Medium + judy@judymillar.ca Twitter: @judymillar

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