Editing Appalachian Mountains (section)

==Etymology==
While exploring inland along the northern coast of [[Florida]] in 1528, the members of the [[Narváez expedition]], including [[Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca]], found a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] village near present-day [[Tallahassee, Florida]], whose name they transcribed as ''Apalchen'' or ''Apalachen'' {{IPA|xap|a.paˈla.tʃɛn}}. The name was soon altered by the Spanish to [[Apalachee Province|Apalachee]] and used as a name for [[Apalachee|the tribe]] and region spreading well inland to the north. [[Pánfilo de Narváez]]'s expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied the name. Now spelled "Appalachian", it is the fourth-oldest surviving European place-name in the US.<ref>After [[Florida]], [[Cape Canaveral]], and [[Dry Tortugas]]: {{Cite book |last=Stewart |first=George |title=Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |publisher=Random House |year=1945 |location=New York |pages=11–13, 17, 18 |author-link=George R. Stewart}}</ref>

After the 1540 expedition of [[Hernando de Soto]], Spanish cartographers began to apply the name of the tribe to the mountains themselves. The first cartographic appearance of ''Apalchen'' is on [[Diego Gutiérrez (cartographer)|Diego Gutiérrez]]'s map of 1562; the first use for the mountain range is the map of [[Jacques le Moyne|Jacques le Moyne de Morgues]] in 1565.<ref>Walls, David (1978), [http://www.sonoma.edu/users/w/wallsd/on-the-naming-of-appalachia.shtml "On the Naming of Appalachia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528100459/http://www.sonoma.edu/users/w/wallsd/on-the-naming-of-appalachia.shtml |date=May 28, 2010 }} In ''An Appalachian Symposium'', pp. 56–76.</ref>

[[File:Gutierrez-1562-detail-app1.jpg|thumb|[[Diego Gutiérrez (cartographer)|Diego Gutiérrez's]] 1562 map of the [[Western Hemisphere]] showing the first known use of a variation of the place name Appalachia ("Apalchen") from his map, {{lang|la|Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio}}]]

The name was not commonly used for the whole mountain range until the late 19th century. A competing and often more popular <!--{{date=July 2022}} - based on the reference to this paragraph, the answer to says who is George R. Stewart in 1967--> name was the "Allegheny Mountains", "Alleghenies", and even "Alleghania". In the early 19th century, [[Washington Irving]] proposed renaming the United States either Appalachia or Alleghania.<ref>[[George R. Stewart|Stewart, George R.]] (1967). ''Names on the Land''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.</ref>

In U.S. dialects in most regions of the Appalachians, the word is pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|p|ə|ˈ|l|æ|tʃ|ᵻ|n|z}}, with the third syllable sounding like "latch". In some northern parts of the mountain range, particularly Pennsylvania, it is pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|p|ə|ˈ|l|eɪ|tʃ|ᵻ|n|z}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|p|ə|ˈ|l|eɪ|ʃ|ᵻ|n|z}}; the third syllable is like "lay", and the fourth "chins" or "shins".<ref>David Walls, "Appalachia". ''The Encyclopedia of Appalachia'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), 1006–1007.</ref> There is often great debate between the residents of the regions regarding the correct pronunciation. Elsewhere, a commonly accepted pronunciation for the adjective ''Appalachian'' is {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|p|ə|ˈ|l|æ|tʃ|i|ə|n}}, with the last two syllables "-ian" pronounced as in the word "Romanian".<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/appalachian Define "Appalachian".] Random House Dictionary, online at Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 15, 2011.</ref>
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