Hazard Nova
Everything in moderation
This thread is really about spelling, so, moderator, feel free to move it somewhere more appropriate if this ain't the place for it.
The present-tense word for "to place a microphone in front of or near something for the purposes of using the microphone to capture its sound" is pronounced like "my king". No dispute there.
A lot of people spell this like "micing" but I would pronounce that like "my sing" and it annoys me. I don't want to put little rodents near my equipment! Is anyone else annoyed by that spelling?
So, I spell it miking. I think many other people do also, though I haven't seen it in a while.
But, I don't shorten the word microphone to "mike". Some people do, but I write "mic". (An intelligent person can hold two contradictory ideas in his head at the same time.)
Along those lines, the shortened version of synchronize is sync. If you are synchronizing something, are you syncing it or synching it? Either way, you're probably not synking it.
The present-tense word for "to place a microphone in front of or near something for the purposes of using the microphone to capture its sound" is pronounced like "my king". No dispute there.
A lot of people spell this like "micing" but I would pronounce that like "my sing" and it annoys me. I don't want to put little rodents near my equipment! Is anyone else annoyed by that spelling?
So, I spell it miking. I think many other people do also, though I haven't seen it in a while.
But, I don't shorten the word microphone to "mike". Some people do, but I write "mic". (An intelligent person can hold two contradictory ideas in his head at the same time.)
Along those lines, the shortened version of synchronize is sync. If you are synchronizing something, are you syncing it or synching it? Either way, you're probably not synking it.