Wil Schwall wrote: > No, it's microphone, just like yours. At this point in time, Google sez "open mike" has about 1,130,000 references on that thar Web thingy; "open mic" has about 4,960,000. If you believe it was derived from the audio industry, boards and other equipment have labels for such things as Mic/Line Switch, Mic Input and Mic Level.