Talk:Name of Pittsburgh

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I just discovered that this page's name was changed from "Name of Pittsburgh" to "Etymology of Pittsburgh", with the edit summary reason: "As per precedent at Category:Placename etymologies". I think the new page name is not ideal, as it isn't about the etymology of the name but rather the history of its spelling--specifically the battle between the US federal government and local interests circa 1890 to 1910. "Etymology" doesn't seem like the appropriate term here. How about moving back to "Name of Pittsburgh"? Pfly (talk) 17:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine. I haven't checked the Oct 2009 version, but the June 2010 version has a good bit about the etymology. —Notyourbroom (talk) 21:04, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Some information in this article differs from the official website of "Visit Pittsburgh". The article claims that the Charter of the city lists Pittsburg without the "h", but the website states: "... the original 1816 charter specified the name of the city to be Pittsburgh, and that only the copies of the charter featured the erroneous spelling "Pittsburg." I don't have any way to determine which is correct. Please see the website at: https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/history/the-pittsburgh-h/ RetiredAndBroke (talk) 02:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article includes an image of the original handwritten charter (not one of the printed copies) showing the name spelled as "Pittsburg". The popular assumption that the h is present in the charter was debunked as far back as 1884, but nobody really paid attention. When the lack of the h was rediscovered in 2016, visitpittsburgh.com apparently wasn't notified. T. Cadwallader Phloog (talk) 12:47, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PS - VisitPittsburgh.com's article first appeared in 2014 (prior versions of the site on Internet Archive do not have this section) and appears to have been lifted largely (at some points copied verbatim!) from the Wikipedia article as it existed at the time. Back then, Wikipedia, too, stated that the original charter spelled Pittsburgh with an H. It was proved otherwise a couple of years later (2016), when, for the bicentennial of Pittsburgh's incorporation as a city, the original charter that had been archived away in Harrisburg for 200 years was put on public display and images of it were made available on the Internet. The Wikipedia article was eventually albeit belatedly corrected; the Visit Pittsburgh version remains unchanged (except in cosmetic appearance). T. Cadwallader Phloog (talk) 16:59, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]