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Subject:Re: Inventing new words? From:David Marcus & Peggy Lamberson <zorro -at- NETDEPOT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 7 May 1996 02:44:23 -0400
In email on Mon, 6 May 1996 14:32:59 -0700, Susan MacIntosh wrote:
| 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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