mic vs mike

Description

Both mike and mic commonly appear as shortened forms of microphone, but mike is the accepted spelling in most dictionaries. Mic presents difficulties because it looks like it should be pronounced mick and because it produces the problematic participles miced and micing. Miked and miking work better. Of course, however the word is spelled, it is a verb mainly in the phrase mic/mike up, meaning to put a mic on someone or something.

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Micing or Miking

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mic, mike, mic'ed, miked, micing, miking

Submitted by anonymous on Tue, 04/26/2005 - 15:20

okay. ever wonder which way was correct for turning this abbreviated word into a participle or past tense verb? well it has driven (it done drove) me crazy for too long so here's the entry on dictionary.com in all its glory:

mike Audio pronunciation of "mic" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mk) Informal
n. also mic (mk)

A microphone.

tr.v. miked, mik·ing, mikes

micing or miking

Submitted by cruisemates on Thu, 01/29/2004 - 15:06

Old geezer here again. Just joined the group to impart my age-old recording wisdom on people to the point of tears of boredom...