Comment by gschizas
16 days ago
The character "μ" itself is called μι or μυ (both pronounced "me"), and is the exact equivalent of Latin "m". For some reason, English speaking countries tend to pronounce it "mew" (they also pronounce "π" as "pie"). But English speaking countries mispronounce so many words it's par for the course anyway.
Pet peeve: I really hate when they replace "μ" with "u". Completely different letters. Of course replacing capital Latin "E" with capital Greek sigma ("Σ") is even worse.
As to the μlauncher: It's anyone's guess as to how the author meant for it to be pronounced. I'd call it "me"launcher or "micro"launcher (micro is also pronounced wrong in English BTW, it's not MY-crow, it's more like mee-CRAW )
"u" has the advantage of correctly rendering basically everywhere, which"μ" does not. My initial attempt to share this was automatically corrected to "Mlauncher" for example. I'm pretty sure this is the reason the one symbol is used so often where it should be the other.
The solution is just to stick to the Latin alphabet, but you can't deny that mixing in a little Greek every now and then is fun.