[all attribution deleted because it was so tangled I couldn't make sense of it] >> Rather than "catenation", in my experience "concatenation" is the >> common term ... > We began fighting this pomposity before v7. There has only been > backsliding since. "Catenate" is crisper, means the same thing, [English pedant mode on] "Concatenate" is the correct term; "catenate" means something completely different, probably "hang between two posts like a chain". You can't chop prefixes off a Latinate word and have it still mean the same thing. [English pedant mode off] Also, and much more importantly, "concatenate" is used at least 100x more often than "catenate" in modern English, and that means it's the word that a randomly selected reader of the manpages is more likely to know, and, therefore, the word that the manpages should be using. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=concatenate%2Ccatenate&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 zw
