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Subject:Re: Inventing new words? From:Paula Puffer <techwrtr -at- CEI -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 7 May 1996 09:52:34 -0500
I've never seen prepend and I don't think I would use it if I had. It =
sounds rather silly and awkward to me. Rather like someone using "task" =
as a verb. I've seen "to task" or "we were tasked" a couple of times =
and I said, "BLEAH."=20
Paula Puffer Someday I'll find a useful quote
techwrtr -at- cei -dot- net To put here. =20 http://www.cei.net/~techwrtr
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