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Etymology of Pittsburgh : ウィキペディア英語版 | Etymology of Pittsburgh
The name of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a complicated history. Pittsburgh is one of the few U.S. cities or towns to be spelled with an ''h'' at the end of a ''burg'' suffix. == Etymology ==
Pittsburgh was named in honor of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, often referred to as William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger. The suffix ''burgh'' is the Scots language and Scottish English cognate of the English language ''borough'', which has other cognates in words and place names in several Indo-European languages. Historically, this morpheme was used in place names to describe a location as being defensible, such as a hill, a fort, or a fortified settlement.〔See Etymology of Burgh for more details.〕
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