Mic not Mike

[Brad Johnson]

I always favored mic, but when I brought this up once to my spouse (her undergrad was linguistics) she responded by asking if I thought "bicycle" should be shortened to "bic".

Now I just write "microphone" and life has become much easier.

But that's comparing micro- to bi-? That seems to be off the mark. Now if it were a micycle I'd see the logic behind the "bic" spelling.

 

[alexwittscheck]

Nothing wrong with friendly competition is there? I added a poll at the beginning. Express you opinion there.

 

[tplyons]

I always favored mic, but when I brought this up once to my spouse (her undergrad was linguistics) she responded by asking if I thought "bicycle" should be shortened to "bic".

Now I just write "microphone" and life has become much easier.

By your wife's logic, since the plural of mouse is mice, the plural of house should be "hice."

How about when someone picks up a cable and starts winding it around their arm?

Now that burns by britches... something my dad always instilled in me growing up, "take care of your cables and they'll take care of you." I've never had a cable go bad on me, because I wind them following it's natural curl.

I try to preach this to others as well...

 

[meRTKendrew]

How about when someone picks up a cable and starts winding it around their arm?

They get banned from our stage..



-RTK

 

[DerHoggz]

"I prefer rosewood necks." This bugs me so much when 99% of the time they are talking about a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard.

 

[mtizzle]

By your wife's logic, since the plural of mouse is mice, the plural of house should be "hice."

Now that burns by britches... something my dad always instilled in me growing up, "take care of your cables and they'll take care of you." I've never had a cable go bad on me, because I wind them following it's natural curl.

I try to preach this to others as well...

If I were to follow the natural curl of my Monster cable, I wouldn't be able to wind it...

 

[fokof]

English is not my main language , so I can write it with a K.

 

[line6man]

"Mike" bugs the crap out of me.

^^^ This. I hate it when someone writes that their cabinet was "miced," or even worse, "mic'd."

But "Mic'd" is fine.

 

[line6man]

"I prefer rosewood necks." This bugs me so much when 99% of the time they are talking about a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard.

+1

 

[DerHoggz]

+1

Its like saying, "I like this car because its gray." Except its blue and the interior is gray.

 

[EricF]

^^^ This. I hate it when someone writes that their cabinet was "miced," or even worse, "mic'd."

And yet, "mic'd" is probably as correct as we'll get in written form - an abbreviation of "microphoned" (as in, put microphone on dat beotch). "Miced" means rodents are involved.

 

[Stumbo]

I always favored mic, but when I brought this up once to my spouse (her undergrad was linguistics) she responded by asking if I thought "bicycle" should be shortened to "bic".

Yeah, but their aren't too many guys named "Bike" that you might confused with "Bic".

 

[Febs]

And yet, "mic'd" is probably as correct as we'll get in written form - an abbreviation of "microphoned" (as in, put microphone on dat beotch). "Miced" means rodents are involved.

In over 30 years of playing, thousands and thousands of gigs, and quite a few recording sessions, I have never once heard anyone use the term "microphoned."

According to dictionary.com, "mike" or "mic" can be used as a verb meaning "to supply or amplify with one or more microphones; attach a microphone to." "Microphone" is used only as a noun. So "miked" is the past tense of the verb "mike," and not a contraction of the (non-existent) word "microphoned."

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

 

[alexwittscheck]

All of you guys that like mike, haven't voted in the poll I guess. Mic is winning by landslide. haha.

 

[Munjibunga]

In over 30 years of playing, thousands and thousands of gigs, and quite a few recording sessions, I have never once heard anyone use the term "microphoned."

According to dictionary.com, "mike" or "mic" can be used as a verb meaning "to supply or amplify with one or more microphones; attach a microphone to." "Microphone" is used only as a noun. So "miked" is the past tense of the verb "mike," and not a contraction of the (non-existent) word "microphoned."

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

I don't think so. "Mic" is a shortened form of the noun "microphone." While I agree that "microphoned" is not used, it is no less grammatically correct than "mic'd" or "miked," since "mic" is also a noun. Mic and microphone are synonyms.

 

[Munjibunga]

Now that burns by britches... something my dad always instilled in me growing up, "take care of your cables and they'll take care of you." I've never had a cable go bad on me, because I wind them following it's natural curl.

I try to preach this to others as well...

Do you wind over-over or over-under?

 

[MakiSupaStar]

I'm staring a campaign to call them 'sumi's', because that's the name of a really sexy Korean/Japanese chick that I used to tap. So if you want to call them Mike's, mice, mickey's, bill, joe, or bob is fine with me, but I'm going call them Sumi's. Ah yes, sweet, sweet sumi's.

 

[tplyons]

Do you wind over-over or over-under?

Over-over for the shorter guys, over-under for the long guys.

 

[DanAleks]

Well, it looks like you aren't going to be able to put the ferret back in your pant leg anyway.

I have no clue what this means, but it works and it's hilarious.

 

[Munjibunga]

I have no clue what this means, but it works and it's hilarious.

It's kind of along the lines of "the genie's out of the bottle."