diff --git a/README b/README
index 6b81ba336..80f19aca0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1633,6 +1633,10 @@ work in verbatim contexts:
 
     This is a backslash followed by an asterisk: `\*`.
 
+Attributes can be attached to verbatim text, just as with
+[delimited code blocks](#delimited-code-blocks):
+
+    `<$>`{.haskell}
 
 Math
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