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Subject:Re: Inventing new words? From:Martyn Thirlway <thirlwaym -at- USOFT -dot- NL> Date:Tue, 7 May 1996 09:38:00 PDT
Come on guys, has no-one got a dictionary? Sure, prepend exists (Websters
and OU), and has the same meaning as perpend, meaning to weigh in the mind
or consider carefully - therefore it is the wrong word in any case.
Personally I agree with Prefix.
Martyn Thirlway
thirlwaym -at- usoft -dot- nl
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>Subject: Inventing new words?
>Date: Monday, May 06, 1996 2:32PM
>Hi everyone,
>Has any one else run across the the term "prepend?" Aaarrrggghhh! I hate
>it! The way I've seen it used indicates that its some form of "append."
>Instead of something appended to the end of something, it's "prepended" to
>the beginning. YUK.
>There must be a better word than this!
>Sue
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