Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:56:46 +0200 From: Kurt Roeckx To: Clarke Echols Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Prepend" doesn't mean what you think it means Message-ID: <20010727155646.A11712@ping.be> References: <3B60C54C.D2AD881E@verinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3B60C54C.D2AD881E@verinet.net> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:35:08PM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote: > > "Prepend" is a very obscure word which means literally to premeditate, > as in, "He looked at her with malice prepended." To start, my maiden language is not English. Looking up in things in the dictionary, prepend doesn't exist, except in the jargon files, where it means add to the beginning. Maybe you mean something like perpend? From the dictionary: Etymology: Middle English, from Latin perpendere, from per-thoroughly + pendere to weigh -- more at PER-, PENDANT Date: 15th century transitive senses : to reflect on carefully : PONDER intransitive senses : to be attentive : REFLECT Kurt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/