The Double-Tongued Dictionary cited one of my blog entries as a source for the word “quizzam,” which is a word I use to let students know that a scheduled quiz might be harder than they expect.
That blog entry was actually written in iambic pentameter, since I wrote it on my annual “Blog in Blank Verse Day.”
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