Pittsburgh had its beginning as a fur-trading post around 17th century. It’s a significant fort for French as the geographical position, in the middle of their territory from Montreal Canada to New Orleans around the middle 18th century. However, the dream of French vanished when the English captured the fort and rebuilt it. The English named it in honor of their Primary Minister, William Pitt, and designed the garrison town of Pitts-borough, or Pittsburgh.
There are two hostile camps about the name of “Pittsburgh” around 100 years ago: those who wanted to spoil the Pittsburgh with the “h”—as it had been from the beginning—and those who wanted to drop the “h” to conform to a more uniform and common spelling.
Anyhow, at last, “h” is here to show the difference between other 12 Pittsburgs in US, such as Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and so on.
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