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The Fight Over How to Spell Pittsburgh

The Fight Over How to Spell Pittsburgh

City Cast Pittsburgh

November 24, 202516m 54s

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Show Notes

It's Pittsburgh's birthday week! To celebrate, we're diving into some history about how our city spells its name. Today, we all agree that Pittsburgh ends with an H, but in our earlier days, people were very split on the issue. We’re bringing back a conversation between host Megan Harris and historian and author Virginia Montanez to learn about the basic rules of how we spell things (really), why Pittsburgh was so bad at it (shocking), and how newspapermen and intellectuals made everything worse (¯\_(ツ)_/¯). 

**This episode originally aired on July 22, 2024.

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