"It's OPEN MIC. If you say Open MIKE others will make fun of you behind your back. Unless you are doing it to be ironic then i apologize.. but it's still MIC."
The following is my response:
Thank you for your concern with my well-being, but I will continue to spell the word as "mike" for the following reasons:
1. I am far too old to yield to the vagaries and corruptions of my beloved English by the likes of you young whippersnappers. You have to understand that I am such an antiquarian that I still haven't fully accepted the fracophonization of the language in 1066.
2. My usage is not "ironic" as that would imply the term was used to mean the opposite of what was stated. Unless, of course, you meant ironic in the sense of "Socratic Irony" which would imply that I was feigning ignorance in order to show others logical inconsistencies in their positions. While that is a guilty little pleasure of mine, it requires that my usage was deliberate, which it was not. The word you were looking for is "malapropism."
3. If people are laughing at me behind my back, I'll take that over not laughing at me at all.
4. I haven't had an "open mic" since I schtupped Maggie Finn back in '76.
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