Pittsburgh

==Etymology==
Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General [[John Forbes (British Army officer)|John Forbes]], in honor of British statesman [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]]. As Forbes was a [[Scottish people|Scotsman]], he probably pronounced the name {{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɪ|t|s|b|ər|ə}} {{respell|PITS|bər|ə}} (similar to [[Edinburgh]]).<ref name="spell">{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname.html |title=How to Spell Pittsburgh |work=[[Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001234852/http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname.html |archive-date=October 1, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/52943/how-pittsburgh-got-its-h-back-and-7-other-geographic-naming-oddities |title=How Pittsburgh Got Its "H" Back |last=Conradt |first=Stacy |date=October 1, 2013 |website=[[Mental Floss]] |access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref>

Pittsburgh was incorporated as a [[Borough (Pennsylvania)|borough]] on April 22, 1794, with the following Act:<ref>{{cite news |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/03001/700027-209.stm |title=Pittsburgh Facts |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=October 21, 2007 |date=January 1, 2003 |archive-date=May 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531055755/http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/03001/700027-209.stm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
"Be it enacted by the [[Pennsylvania State Senate]] and [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... by the authority of the same, that the said town of Pittsburgh shall be ... erected into a borough, which shall be called the borough of Pittsburgh for ever."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname2.html |title=An ACT to erect the town of Pittsburgh ... |work=[[Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004534/http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname2.html |archive-date=July 6, 2007 }}</ref>

From 1891 to 1911, the city's name was federally recognized as "Pittsburg", though use of the final ''h'' was retained during this period by the city government and other local organizations.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stewart |first=George R. |author-link=George R. Stewart |title=Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |url=https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew |url-access=registration |orig-year=1945 |edition=Sentry edition (3rd) |year=1967 |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/namesonlandhisto0000stew/page/342 342–344]}}</ref><ref name="spell"/> After a public campaign, the federal decision to drop the ''h'' was reversed.<ref name="spell"/> The ''[[The Pittsburgh Press|Pittsburg Press]]'' continued spelling the city without an ''h'' until 1921.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lowry|first=Patricia|title=Are yinz from Pittsburg?|department=The Next Page|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=July 17, 2011|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2011/07/17/The-Next-Page-Are-yinz-from-Pittsburg/stories/201107170206|access-date=March 14, 2023}}</ref>