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I'm a bit perplex why you've chosen to pedantize this particular word choice since "prepend" itself is a portmanteau derived by mashing "pre" and "append" together.

Perhaps the trio of "affix", "prefix" and "suffix" might be more useful, since there is no "postpend" or "suppend" to accompany "append" and "prepend".

Regardless, the Google ngram chart of these various words is pretty interesting: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=prepend%2Cappen...

I assume the neologism was intentional?

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pedantize&y...

I had no idea 'prepend' was used so infrequently.

Why does Google append their JSON responses to while(1); ?

That carries the implication "why not simply return 'while(1)'?".

No, you prefix.

Don't call seag a prefix. :(

and what do you see as the difference between appending in front and prepending?

Nothing, if you're prepared to say you can pop something onto a stack and push it off.

what about a deque? the push-pop/shift-unshift distinction is unnecessarily confusing when something doesn't have stack semantics.