Pittsburgh
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- Pittsburg (official until 1911)
Etymology
[edit]From Pitt + -s- + -burgh (“fortified place”), after William Pitt the Elder.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Pittsburgh
- A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 2007 January 18, Alan Schwarz, “Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry Long, who committed suicide in 2005.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Pittsburgh compound B
- Pittsburghese
- Pittsburgh ivy
- Pittsburgh potty
- Pittsburgh salad
- Pittsburgh toilet
- Shitsburgh
Related terms
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