play prepend...

How do I begin this wild verbal ride, this crazy trip down vocabulary lane?  Should I tell you that right now I feel like my parents failed me?  I do a little.  They didn't prepare me for all the words life would throw at me.  Sigh... Mom, Dad... you guys let me down.

What am I talking about?  What indeed...  don't act like you don't know... let's just come right out with it then.

I didn't know what "prepend" meant.  I didn't even know it was a fricking word until shortly after noon today.  It's not that I'm a literary genius or anything, but you'd think that a word that's in a menu on my telephone wouldn't escape me.  It wasn't even on my fancy pants iPhone... just a run of the mill regular cell phone.  I've never thought of myself as having a limited number of words to use.  I've always been quite pleased with my knowledge and my ability to select and utilize the English language.  Well not today.

Am I alone?  Do you know what prepend means?  My spell check isn't even recognizing it as a word so maybe I shouldn't feel all that awful... but I do.  I'm traumatized.

Damn you English language.  Damn you straight to the bowls of some hot sweaty furnace room.