mandocaster
non compos mentis
Microphone is a noun - it got abbreviated to "mic". Then it was turned into a verb. I vote for "mic'ing".
shouldn't micing rhyme with slicing?
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scrubs
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Both micing and mic'ing are incorrect. The abbreviated noun is either mike or mic. Miking is the transitive verb.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mic
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=miking&x=14&y=17
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=microphone
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mic
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=miking&x=14&y=17
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=microphone
noisedude
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Mic'ing. Miking would make sense historically, as Greek (where most of English comes from, not Latin) has no 'c', so the hard 'k' sound would only be written with an actual 'k', and not a mis-pronounced 'c' like we have.
But mic'ing makes more sense to me based on our current spelling.
But mic'ing makes more sense to me based on our current spelling.
The Engineer
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Rhyming/Rapping isn't about proper grammar, you hear these whack ass southern rappers using Whodie, Kuh, and Playa.
Ha, so feel free to make your own shit.
Ha, so feel free to make your own shit.
Harvey Gerst
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So, if I went for a ride on my bicycle, would I be "bic'ing" or "bicing"? And should I call it a "bic" or a "bike"?noisedude said:Mic'ing. Miking would make sense historically, as Greek (where most of English comes from, not Latin) has no 'c', so the hard 'k' sound would only be written with an actual 'k', and not a mis-pronounced 'c' like we have.
But mic'ing makes more sense to me based on our current spelling.
Sonixx
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After we solve these maybe we can move on to more important words like micing...
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time
to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One
goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time
to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One
goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
Mic'ing looks the most fitting, visually, to me. Feels right for two reasons - 1) the apostrophe, being the correct replacement for missing letters, feels academic (HA), and 2) Mike is my brother's name so "miking" just doesn't look right to me.
Almost all nouns are being verbed now, and verbs are being nouned. Things like, "You have to do the ask." It's especially bad in high tech marketing. Makes good Dilbert material.
Tim
Almost all nouns are being verbed now, and verbs are being nouned. Things like, "You have to do the ask." It's especially bad in high tech marketing. Makes good Dilbert material.
Tim
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Timothy Lawler said:
Okay, the tech writer in me just woke up. With respect to miking sounding like your brother, note that "mike" is short for microphone, while Mike is generally short for Michael. Capitalization does matter a lot in English....
As for "mic'ing", that's just plain wrong. An apostrophe can't replace arbitrary letters in a single word. The apostrophe has exactly three functions:
1. To replace letters in a contraction---a combination of two words (e.g. didn't, can't, won't)
2. To indicate ownership (e.g. Mike's ball, Tom's chair, the Jones' front porch, Theresa Jones's diary...)
3. Forming the plural of a lower-case letter (though this one is somewhat obscure usage, I think)
Because "ing" isn't a word, you can't turn it into a contraction.
Thus, the only correct spelling can be miking.
[Edit: oh, and micing... might be mousing with both hands... for the ambidextrous computer geek.]
mandocaster
non compos mentis
dgatwood said:Okay, the tech writer in me just woke up. With respect to miking sounding like your brother, note that "mike" is short for microphone, while Mike is generally short for Michael. Capitalization does matter a lot in English....
As for "mic'ing", that's just plain wrong. An apostrophe can't replace arbitrary letters in a single word. The apostrophe has exactly three functions:
1. To replace letters in a contraction---a combination of two words (e.g. didn't, can't, won't)
2. To indicate ownership (e.g. Mike's ball, Tom's chair, the Jones' front porch, Theresa Jones's diary...)
3. Forming the plural of a lower-case letter (though this one is somewhat obscure usage, I think)
Because "ing" isn't a word, you can't turn it into a contraction.
Thus, the only correct spelling can be miking.
[Edit: oh, and micing... might be mousing with both hands... for the ambidextrous computer geek.]
A contraction doesn't have to be one of the ones you mentioned. In times past, contractions were used to shorten all kinds of longer words (like microphoning).
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mandocaster said:
True, and technically, the origin of the possessive use of apostrophes is, I'm told, derived from an "es" genitive ending in middle english (and German), so it truly was leaving out a letter.
There are also a few exceptions lurking in modern English---relics of times gone by---fo'c'sle, ne'er-do-well, o'er, rock 'n' roll.... As far as I can tell, with the exception of that last one, they're all basically considered archaic spellings. I'm not sure what to make of the appearance of 'n' as a short form for "and".... Maybe it's just the languag evolving....
mattamatta
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Sonixx said:
Hehe, not that it matters, but I always feel compelled to point out when people say that, that french fries aren't called french because they allegedly come from France (not a legitimate country), but because they are "frenched", or sliced in that particular manner.
