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2 history =  
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3 Separate crossings list  
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4 Name's meaning  
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5 Merge required?  
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6 External links modified  
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Talk:Youghiogheny River




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pronunciation

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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)[reply]


history =

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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)[reply]


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[reply]

Separate crossings list

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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)[reply]

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

Name's meaning

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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)[reply]

Page has it as Lenape, but when I was working through Allegheny, it ended up being an Iroquoian word (essentially a variant of the tribe name Erie, Alligeh) with the Lenape ni tacked onto the end- essentially an Iroquois word borrowed by the Lenape. This ni on the means at, there, or of, & is ironically entirely redundant, as that is also what the Iroquois geh means. This was literally what the Lenape seemed to have called both that area & the Erie people- the Aligeni.

But, if we apply the same logic to Youghiogheny & take into account that alternate spellings really lean into the first g as being pronounced, I think it's Iroquois for "Good along the water, there," with the Lenape ni tacked onto the end to turn it into a Lenape name for the place. From Cayuga Dictionary- iyo: - good, gęhyad - at the edge of, or just above, geh - there. Lenape ni - there.

Also, the geh commonly follows the names of tribes, so it almost makes me wonder if there had originally been a Susquehannock tribe called the Iyogęhyageh People before. But, I doubt we'll ever know. Bobbotronica (talk) 18:05, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge required?

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Youghiogheny Scenic & Wild River Is this distinction necessary? --Traveler100 (talk) 09:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

--DThomsen8 (talk) 22:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Historical Map

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Is it possible to highlight the river on the map? I spent way too much time looking int he middle of the map only to discover that the river is in the upper-left. Thisisfutile (talk) 12:43, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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