Talk:Youghiogheny River

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Ohio Portal Youghiogheny River is part of WikiProject Ohio, which collaborates on Ohio-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to current discussions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
Please rate this article, and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Suggested article edit guidelines: To help us prioritise our workload, and in readiness for Wikipedia:1.0, we need to assess our articles for Quality. If this article is Unassessed, please assess it. See the Article Classification for instructions. If you disagree with a rating, you can change it or discuss it at Article Classification. After assessing this article's quality, please make sure it to add it to the Lists at Article Classification, following the grading scheme detailed there.

	Pennsylvania Portal Youghiogheny River is part of WikiProject Pennsylvania, which is building a comprehensive and detailed guide to Pennsylvania on Wikipedia. To participate, you can edit the attached article, join or discuss the project.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

	Youghiogheny River is part of WikiProject Pittsburgh, which is building a comprehensive guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its metropolitan area on Wikipedia. To participate, you can edit the attached article, join or discuss the project. Editors are currently needed to tag Pittsburgh-related articles with {{pghproj}}.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as high-importance on the importance scale.

	This article is part of WikiProject Rivers, a WikiProject to systematically present information on rivers. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information)
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. [FAQ]

Contents 1 pronunciation 2 history = 3 Separate crossings list 4 Name's meaning

[edit] pronunciation

I always pronounced Youghiogheny as if the second G was silent ("Yock-uh-HAY-knee")

Does anyone else think the pronunciation in the article is incorrect? 164.107.200.248 20:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

• It appears that the pronounced G is most common, but that your pronunciation is also used frequently. I have updated the article to reflect that both pronunciations are acceptable. --M@rēino 15:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• I added IPA. didn't remove the existing ones since they are cited. I feel like it's possible that emphasis is on the first syllable, but emphasis is so similar between the first and third it didn't seem like a point to argue. Pudowski 23:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] history =

I was wondering about your source of information regarding the fort inundated at Somerset, PA, by the Youghiogheny Dam. I am fairly familiar with the area and wondered if you meant Somerfield, PA. (a town where US Rt 40 crosses the lake - buildings removed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and inundated in 1948 when the area was flooded) I was also wondering about the fort. I have never heard of it before.Forester856 18:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I have received no reply in the past month but would add that Somerset is 25 miles north of the dam while the lake is on the south side of the dam. If you want to be accurate, please delete the reference to Somerset. The town of Somerfield, at the site of the National Road crossing the Youghiogheny River, was inundated by the flooding behind the dam.69.89.169.55 21:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Forester856

[edit] Separate crossings list

This river is long enough that the crossing list should really be done as a separate article, as with so many of our other rivers.

I would do it myself but I really don't know the area well. Daniel Case 03:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Moved to List of crossings of the Youghiogheny River. VerruckteDan 14:56, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name's meaning

I'm assuming that the name Youghiogheny is from some native language but does anyone know which language and what its meaning is? 75.39.128.108 (talk) 20:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)