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- The first known use of glitch was in 1958
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The first time I heard the word "glitch" was in 1941 in Worcester. I got a job there as an announcer at WTAG. When an announcer made a mistake, such as putting on the wrong record or reading the wrong commercial, anything technical, or anything concerning the sales department, that was called a "glitch" and had to be entered on the Glitch Sheet ...
Oct 24, 2013 · 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.
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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.
According to a Wall Street Journal article written by Ben Zimmer, [6] The Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro came up with the new earliest use of the word yet found: May 19, 1940. That was when the novelist Katharine Brush wrote about glitch in her column "Out of My Mind" (syndicated in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other papers ...
The earliest known use of the verb glitch is in the 1960s. OED's earliest evidence for glitch is from 1962, in the Washington Post.
glitch (n.) by 1953, said to have been in use in radio broadcast jargon since early 1940s, American English, possibly from Yiddish glitsh "a slip," from glitshn "to slip," from German glitschen , and related gleiten "to glide" (see glide (v.)).
Oct 24, 2013 · 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. Astronaut John Glenn used the word in his 1962 book, Into Orbit : "Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was 'glitch'.
