As a native speaker, I'd add that "append" is commonly used in everyday spoken and written english, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in partnership with "added to the beginning", rather than "prepend". Logically it makes no sense. Google n-gram gives an idea of how rarely "prepend" is used. More @Wikipedia
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