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The persistent glitchiness of HealthCare.gov, the website implementing the Affordable Care Act, has given us much time to ponder that peculiar little word, glitch. As it happens, some new research on the word brings its origin, most likely from Yiddish, into a sharper perspective.
Oct 24, 2013 · From the moment President Obama warned the public there might be "glitches" with HealthCare.gov, the word has taken the spotlight. So we wondered: Where did this word come from?
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From the moment President Obama warned the public there might be "glitches" with HealthCare.gov, the word has taken the spotlight. So we wondered: Where did this word come from?
Nov 3, 2015 · The word "glitch" was used more widely known in the late 1900s, in the US, of an unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current,’ hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang. 'Glitch' has an unknown origin but was more common in the US. What is the origin of the word glitch?
The earliest known use of the noun glitch is in the 1960s. OED's earliest evidence for glitch is from 1962, in the writing of J. Glenn. It is also recorded as a verb from the 1960s.
Aug 14, 2024 · Glitch: Meaning and Linguistic Origins. The term “glitch” has an interesting history. It’s believed to come from the Yiddish word glitsh, meaning “slippery place.” However, its exact roots are not clear. This background shows how words change over time, shaping the language we use now.
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Oct 24, 2013 · To complicate things, the origins and etymology of "glitch" are unknown, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. But it seems to first come into the vernacular in the 1960s and '70s — in the context of small, unforeseen technical errors in space travel.
