p.s. I won'r post on this (off)topic any more.
I'm pretty well responsible for this so just to refer back to my question:
During development when referring to HTML (and perhaps CSS) with a client do you use the term "code" or the more pedantically correct, though perhaps less recognised, term "markup" ?
My question really had to do with the terms we use with clients. It is probably drifting off topic to go on about the relative naming/histories/etc but I think it is on topic discussing the ways in which we explain what we are trying to achieve. During the process of this some technical explanation becomes necessary and "code" and "mark-up" are an example of terms that become unavoidable. So my question should have been worded to ask more about the way lay-persons react to the terms than to how or why we use them. For example, the point about "mark-up" also referring to costing illustrated where our terms can be more confusing than helpful.
Anyway, I don't think it needs to go much further from here so thanks for your input everyone.
Nick
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