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I just got Monday's AWAD, finis... I have had a couple of instances lately of very late arriving email... just thought everyone would want to know. 
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To find Today's Word, don't wait for e-mail, scroll down to
bottom of this window,and click on Today's Word. I am a bit
frustrated, it is "finis" for the third time.
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the worm also creates new addresses by guessing common user names and prepending them to domain names of found email addresses [e.a.] I understand what the writer is hanging onto with this uglification, but since the space this word occupies is already taken I intend to remove his preppendix with a rusty spoon  prepend
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trans. To weigh mentally, ponder, consider; to premeditate. (But app. often used by confusion for perpend.)
a1568 Wedderburn in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 839 And als ye sowld prepend bayth day and houris, To grit mischeif, misery and neid, Fra paramouris dois evir mair succeid. 1621 Bolton Stat. Irel. 128 (Act 28 Hen. VIII), The kings majestie+prepending and waying+how much it doth more conferre to the induction of rude and ignorant people to the knowledge of Almightie God. 1890 Scots Observer 4 Jan. 179 There are still amongst us people who prepend the Sphinx-torpedo question.
Hence pre"pended ppl. a., premeditated; = prepense a. (nonce-use.)
1831 Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Newspapers 35 Years Ago, To get up, moreover, to make jokes with malice prepended.
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It's a common enough usage in IT. Perhaps you'd prefer prefix as a verb? http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/p/prepend.htmlIt's interesting how append went from something weighed to something attached.
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Append seems to have taken on the connotation of being attached to the end. (I don't suppose Appendix had anything to do with *that) Prepend would then be necessay to specify that it's being added to the front. Whether it's the best choice is a whole nother question.
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Something weighed? I thought it was linked etymologically to appendage, and thus figuratively the bits hanging off the end of a document.
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And thereby appends a tale.
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ah, OK, so now I mustn't hang about ~ supper calls! Have a good weekend, all y'all above the line dwellers ;)
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