[Ads-l] mic/mike (was fuck them)

[Marc Sacks]

No, Amy. It's not just you. I still spell it mike, just like I did when I
learned it back in the 50s. Though come to think of it, I never really
learned it, just heard it pronounced mike and spelled it accordingly, just
like a guy's name. Mick could be a guy's name too, but it's not short for
mickrophone. so what gives?

Marc Sacks

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> On 8/31/16 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:51:41 -0400 From: Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: fuck them Yeah, whenever I read
> > the pop-pedantic "mic," I still think "Mick," which must make me some
> > kind of bigot. JL On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Laurence Horn
> > <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> >> >Yeah, I've run into that.  I just can't read"mic" with a "long" (i.e.
> >> >diphthongized great-vowel-shifted) "i".  But we're a dying breed,
> Dubya(s).
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> Thank God it's not just me.
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> ---Amy West
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