16 Sep
2024
16 Sep
'24
9:10 a.m.
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
But brevity is the defensible argument for
"catenate", while
familiarity boosts "concatenate".
I suspect that only "highly educated east-coasters" are
familiar with "catenate." My education was pretty good,
but catenate, for all it's advantages of brevity and similar
age to "concatenate" is simply never used in modern-day
American English.
I'd never heard it until, like just about all the rest of
us, I came across it in the Unix manual.
My $.02,
Arnold