Not even the staunchest mic proponents go that far, using miking and miked in those cases, or micвЂ™ing and micвЂ™d.

When someone is attaching your microphone are they micing you? Are you then miced? No one wants to be covered in mice. ThereвЂ™s an additional problem when itвЂ™s used as a verb. We have Coke, not COC(a-cola), nuke, not NUC(lear), fave, not FAV(orite), fridge, not (re)FRIG(erator), and for shortenings that would end in вЂicвЂ™ we have bike, not BIC(ycle), and delish, not (DELICious). Mic, like similar words tic, hic, sic, and the abbreviation pic, looks like it should be pronounced вЂњmick.вЂќ If we want to pronounce it like 'mike,' we should adapt the spelling, as we normally do. The problem with mic is that it doesnвЂ™t follow our usual habits of matching abbreviation spellings to our pronunciations. He is a firm mike proponent, but he has tracked both sides of the argument with fair-minded rigor. Musician Samuel Bayer has maintained a 12-year, self-described вЂњ tiradeвЂќ about the use of mic to spell the abbreviation of microphone.

The early abbreviation for microphone, dating back to 1927, was mike, but over the past 25 or so years mic has been steadily pushing mike out of the microphone scene. If you forget your microphone is on and say something inappropriate do you have a вЂњhot mikeвЂќ problem or a вЂњhot micвЂќ problem? Do you go to вЂњopen mike nightвЂќ or вЂњopen mic nightвЂќ? When youвЂ™ve delivered a devastating comeback do you drop вЂњthe mikeвЂќ or вЂњthe micвЂќ?

Meaning of mic drop