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Subject:Re: Inventing new words (prepend)? From:Alma Schipper <schippal -at- LIMS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 6 May 1996 16:58:51 -0500
Sue MacIntosh wrote:
>Has any one else run across the the term "prepend?" Aaarrrggghhh!
Ugh -- I've seen it too. I usually try to convince the perpetrator to
change it to either "insert" or "prefix", depending on which is likely to
make more sense to the reader.
-- Alma T. Schipper :-)
schippal -at- lims -dot- com
(518) 274-1990, ext. 165
Laboratory MicroSystems, Inc. (but speaking on my own...)
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