Hello from the Burg
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Welcome aboard. A lot of folks start off with kits and stick with them forever. There is a lot of great kits out there. Some folks move on to juice pails and others go on to fresh fruit. You even have a neighbor that went from fruit to candy canes down there. Whatever you decide we are here to help you along your journey.
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what is the burg....
I believe it is Pittsburgh -- but why not say "from the burgh"?
Oh, and welcome to WMT!!!
Oh, and welcome to WMT!!!
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Freeze06 - Welcome to WMT. I started this hobby in the fall. I made 2 kits, then moved into doing 1 gallon batches of Dragon's Blood and recipes of fruit wines I find online. I am currently looking at doing some more kits. So for me it is going back and forth as I am learning. I like the 1 gallon batches as it lets me experiment and learn without having 30 bottles of each thing, and I can have more variety in my selection.
cimbaliw - I live just outside Mercer... originally from Butler County, but the was my wife's family home.
Sour Grapes - just want to thank you for knowing Pittsburgh (PA) has an "H" on the end. personal pet peeve of mine when people don't bother to pay attention to that -- have actually seen a job posting from a large national company that has an office downtown that didn't spell it right.
cimbaliw - I live just outside Mercer... originally from Butler County, but the was my wife's family home.
Sour Grapes - just want to thank you for knowing Pittsburgh (PA) has an "H" on the end. personal pet peeve of mine when people don't bother to pay attention to that -- have actually seen a job posting from a large national company that has an office downtown that didn't spell it right.
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You're welcome. I thought the 'H' was, as your post suggests, a point of pride for most Pittsburghers. If I recall correctly, the USPS tried to force all cities in the US named ____burgh to change their name to _____burg; I believe that Pittsburgh raised a ruckus, and won the fight, but no other city did.
Again, IIRC, the famous Honus Wagner tobacco trading card that is worth a zillion dollars says "Pittsburg." I imagine it was during the time of this struggle for the 'H' (but I don't know that).
I am from Pittsburgh and we are proud of our "H"... Here is something I found on the internet.
"Pittsburgh is the most misspelled city in America, according to a recent study by ePodunk. The most common misspelling? You guessed it - Pittsburgh spelled without its 'h.'
Pittsburgh, named by General John Forbes in honor of Sir William Pitt, has officially ended in an 'h' since its founding in 1758 with the exception of the time period from 1890-1911. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison established the 10-man U.S. Board on Geographic Names to help restore order to the naming of cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other places throughout the U.S. At the time, some states actually had as many as five different towns with the same name which, understandably, caused confusion.
One of the first codes established by the new Board to help restore order to U.S. place names was that the final 'h' should be dropped from the names of all cities and towns ending in 'burgh.' The proud citizens of Pittsburgh, considering their town an obvious historical exception to this ruling, refused to give in to the Board's ruling and mounted a campaign to keep the traditional spelling. Twenty years later, in 1911, the Board finally relented and restored the 'h' to Pittsburgh. To this day people remain confused."
"Pittsburgh is the most misspelled city in America, according to a recent study by ePodunk. The most common misspelling? You guessed it - Pittsburgh spelled without its 'h.'
Pittsburgh, named by General John Forbes in honor of Sir William Pitt, has officially ended in an 'h' since its founding in 1758 with the exception of the time period from 1890-1911. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison established the 10-man U.S. Board on Geographic Names to help restore order to the naming of cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other places throughout the U.S. At the time, some states actually had as many as five different towns with the same name which, understandably, caused confusion.
One of the first codes established by the new Board to help restore order to U.S. place names was that the final 'h' should be dropped from the names of all cities and towns ending in 'burgh.' The proud citizens of Pittsburgh, considering their town an obvious historical exception to this ruling, refused to give in to the Board's ruling and mounted a campaign to keep the traditional spelling. Twenty years later, in 1911, the Board finally relented and restored the 'h' to Pittsburgh. To this day people remain confused."
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I do believe that all of the other Pittsburg(h)'s in our nation are spelled sans "h". While we ARE proud of our "H" as being distinctive in the formal setting, the "burg" is the informal, neighborhood, sports minded, blue collar adoptive reference to our great city. And don't think for one minnit that we ain't proud of it!!!! Don't know for sure when it surfaced, but I'd bet the "late,great Myron Cope" had something ta do with it in the '70's
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I appreciate all the warm welcomes and as floandgary stated those of us who were born and raised in Pittsburgh refer to our hometown as the burg without the h. 
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I appreciate all the warm welcomes and as floandgary stated those of us who were born and raised in Pittsburgh refer to our hometown as the burg without the h.
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I appreciate all the warm welcomes and as floandgary stated those of us who were born and raised in Pittsburgh refer to our hometown as the burg without the h.
And to think your grandparents fought for it, and now you toss it aside like a broken gumband .....
As Rocky points out there was a time period when Pittsburgh was spelled without the H ..... the story I always heard is that the citizens fought to have the H restored as an honor to one of their greatest leaders and someone who did a lot to build the Steel City --- Andrew Carnegie. Being from Scotland, where Burghs have the H, this was a great honor to him in our nation where all the other cities were sans H
