Merriam-Webster's trending list today:

[conuly]

imbroglio
spurious
righteous
Kafkaesque
mike (short for "microphone")

Should I ditch my plans and plunge into a day of current events?

Comments

[conuly]

I get that, but I don't like "mike" so much because I keep wanting to stick a cap M on it.

[konsectatrix]

Same here. I prefer "mic" myself.

[didotwite]

i was gonna say. i use both but i have read lots of scorn for "mike"

i also use "bike" interchangeably for both bicycle and motorcycle which I think is a Britishism/not so common.

[konsectatrix]

I use "bike" the same way, and I'm sure I've heard it around before--you are not alone. :)

(disclaimer: I pick up a lot of stuff at random from other people/books and my spouse is first gen Scot-American.)