glitch antedated to 1955

[Jonathan Lighter]

1948  Ned Midgley _The Advertising and Business Side of Radio_
(N. Y.: Prentice-Hall) 278: Usually most "glitches," as on-the-air mistakes
are called, can be traced to a mistake on the part of the traffic
department.

This is from GB, so the page number may be wrong. However, the snippet is
clear, looks like old-time typography, and the date "1948" is visible on the
miniature title page.

This tends to corroborate the Tony Randall's circumstantial recollection in
1981 (in HDAS): "The first time I heard the word 'glitch' was in 1941...at
WTAG [radio] (Worcester, Mass.). When an announcer made a mistake, that was
called a "glitch" and had to be entered on the 'Glitch Sheet,' which was a
mimeographed form. The older announcers told me the term had been used as
long as they could remember.'"

JL



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Sensational antedating!
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> OED and HDAS have glitch from 1962.
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> Billboard Oct 15, 1955 p.4 col. 1-4
> Bell Telephone System adv.
> They talk of Pigeons and Glitch
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> "Pigeons" are not birds to a Bell System technician. They are impulse
> noises causing spots which seem to fly across the TV picture. And when he
> talks of "glitch" with a fellow technician, he means a low frequency
> interference which appears as a narrow horizontal bar moving vertically
> through th picture....
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=CyMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=glitch&hl=en&ei=QMhFTLP1FoKdlgfMtOG_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=glitch&f=false
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