<P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

How did the city of pittsburgh get its name
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