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Is Faiz the King of the Mic?

skatingbasser wrote:Mic.

Mic'ed.

Same here.

-A

Forget all this - I'm with Rodabod. From now on, I MICHAEL everything with MICHAELPHONES.

Apparently, Webster's Online and Dictionary.com both puss out on this issue and have listings for both MIC (as a word/abbreviation) and MIKE - but neither include MIC'ED as an option.

Mr. Scott Card sounds a mite too pedantic for his own good.

As for me, I Michelle my instruments.

No wait that sounds gross

MICrophone. Hence, I mic something. If I already did it, I either mic'd or mic'ed it. I don't really care. Point's taken. There is no 'k' in microphone, so I don't feel comfortable just throwing one in there willy nilly.

If I'm in the process, I'm mic'ing it up, yo.

By the way, a buss is a kiss, not a conductor used to send signal from multiple sources to a single source.

Strategery...

mike is digital. mic is analog.

Mic = abbreviaton of Microphone.

Mike = that dude who hangs around with 'Tony' and 'Paulie'



Do you really want Tony and Paulie messing around with yer microphones?

I think not.

cwiko wrote:MICrophone. Hence, I mic something. If I already did it, I either mic'd or mic'ed it. I don't really care. Point's taken. There is no 'k' in microphone, so I don't feel comfortable just throwing one in there willy nilly.

Adding fuel to the debate: Have you ever ridden a bic? There's no 'k' in in 'bicycle'.

I tend to agree that the word 'mic' is a poorly-created abbreviation, and that it SHOULD be 'mike', for the reason expressed in the quotation of the original post. However, I do not like it as 'mike' for the noun, for the reasons many of you do not. I do, however, think putting punctuation to make it work as a past-tense verb looks even worse - and takes longer to type - than replacing the 'c' with a 'k', hence, I prefer 'miked'.

Mic/Miked.

I can't decide, so I just D.I. everything now.

spacebar wrote:I can't decide, so I just D.I. everything now.

Don't forget you still need pop filters on each source.