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  EDline Vol. 8, no. 16    (19 February 2003)

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  Contents:

         Q & A
  [2xo]  'Mark-up' vs 'markup'

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         Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003
         From: Steve Rickaby, srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk

My current author is trying to convince me that 'markup' is now
an accepted usage. I am unconvinced. Does anyone have the
authoritative answer?


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         Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003
         From: Mark Hendy, markhendy1@compuserve.com

As a noun it's ok. As a verb, no - should be two words. Like
takeup/take up, speedup/speed up etc.


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         Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003
         From: Marissa Carruthers, marissa_carruthers@hotmail.com

I think that nowadays 'markup' is accepted but may leave a lot of
people thinking that you have made a mistake. I think that I
would use 'mark-up'.

In 'The Oxford Guide to Style', it states that compound terms may
be spaced, hyphenated or closed, so i think that generally it is
up to you.


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         Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003
         From: Steve Rickaby, srickaby@wordmongers.demon.co.uk

Marissa Carruthers wrote:

> I think that nowadays 'markup' is accepted but may leave a lot
> of people thinking that you have made a mistake.  I think that
> I would use 'mark-up'.

I was remiss about stating the context: this is 'markup/mark-up'
as in HTML tagging. 

It does seem that the consensus is that 'markup' is ok in this
context only, grating though on my nerves as it does :-( As do
all such synthetic compounds: I sometimes think that English is
turning into German. I was following a van the other day that
proclaimed that its owners were specialists in 'waterfilters'.
Urgh.


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