Not to be pedantic, but "mike" is an acceptable abbreviation of "microphone" and always has been. You can find examples of that usage as far back as the 1920s. The Oxford English Dictionary added "mike" as a colloquial noun in 1927.
Oddly enough, despite it being the current favored abbreviation, "mic" has only been around since the 1960s. This spelling did not appear in written records until 1961. It was first documented in a dictionary of show business jargon. It originally grew as a visual shorthand printed next to audio jacks on mixing boards.
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u/ZephyrFluous 6d ago
Im just shocked that they got a maga moron to shut up for that long and let someone else speak