Miked or Miced or Mic'd or Micd or Micced...

EricTheWeary · July 2015

...or any other variation you can think of? Twice this morning I've read ' miked' and it seems wrong yet the alternatives don't seem much better either. But then it isn't properly a word I suppose so maybe we can write it how we like?
I couldn't decide which bit of the forum for this but have gone for Off Topic as that seems to be closest to the 'random stuff you think about when you should be doing something more useful' category.

Cirrus · July 2015

Miked.

You mike something with a mic.

not_the_dj · July 2015

I vote for Mic'd....we're shortening microphone so that's got to be in?

Mic'ing looks a bit clunky though.

EricTheWeary · July 2015

Cirrus;714703" said:
Miked.

You mike something with a mic.

I have certainly read mike as an abbreviation for microphone before and even I know that's wrong!

John_P · July 2015

The number of times I rephrase a what I'm typing to avoid the awkwardness of using Miked or Mic'ed.

Here's an article with a lot of persuasive writing for using Mike but it still makes me uncomfortable.

viz · July 2015

Microphoned.

Panama_Jack666 · July 2015

Mic'd!

hobbio · July 2015

Mic'd for me.

Brize · July 2015

Mic'd.

Edit: Changed my view on this after looking up the dictionary definition, posted below.

DesVegas · July 2015

Mic'd - Although i prefer the rhyming slang Office Biked

scrumhalf · July 2015

If panic can give us panicked I see no problem with mic giving us miked. I also remember when mike was used in preference to mic.

Cirrus · July 2015

Fuck off, you're all mental. Mic'd is stupid. I can't see any reason why the verb to place a microphone on something needs to be spelled with a c instead of a k. Miked is much easier to read, leaves no doubt as to the pronunciation and is categorically the right thing to type. On the other hand, if you're shortening the name of the object it makes sense to maintain the "c" as that's how it's spelled.

@Panama_Jack666, @hobbio, @Brize, go and start your own language.

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ICBM · July 2015

I used mic'ed and don't find it awkward, but mic'd is fine too.

Anything else - especially with a k - is wrong, because it's a miss-spelling not an abbreviation, which should contain only letters that are in the full word, with an apostrophe to signify missing letters. [/pedant]

More importantly "mike" or "miked" is just far too Smashy 'n' Nicey.

Brize · July 2015

mike 2 |mʌɪk| informal

nouna microphone.verb [ with obj. ]supply or equip with a microphone: the minister was already miked upfor the interview.ORIGIN 1920s: abbreviation.

Panama_Jack666 · July 2015

We don't need to @Cirrus We've got one called 'English'.

Give it a go some time

*Obviously a joke! Don't get your knickers in a twist!

EricTheWeary · July 2015

viz said:

Microphoned.

That seems obviously right yet looks so wrong at the same time. 'I microphoned my Fender combination amplifier' http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y513/phlplls/Mobile Uploads/2015-07/73C15499-6656-4D76-AD91-BDA64E4E3955_zpsblkq8ynm.jpg

not_the_dj · July 2015

If only @lixarto were here, he was good at this stuff!

EricTheWeary · July 2015

not_the_dj said:

If only @lixarto were here, he was good at this stuff!

That's true. On the other hand I have been able to admit to liking the Inbetweeners movie since he went.

John_P · July 2015

I'll think about it while I go for a bice ride.

Cirrus · July 2015

There you go. If you spell it mic'd then you are implying the word is "microphoned" which looks daft. I microphoned you up? Nah, I miked you up with a microphone. Miked is a different word that encompasses the action of deliberately placing a microphone on a source. It's not an abbreviation.

@Panama_Jack666 not a chance laddie.

DesVegas · July 2015

Well the Americans spell it mic'd ... so that rules that one out

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