Further Antedating of "Glitch"

[Shapiro, Fred]

glitch (OED 1962)

1940 _Washington Post_ 19 May (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  When the radio talkers make a little mistake in diction they call it a "fluff," and when they make a bad one they call it a "glitch," and I love it.


Fred Shapiro














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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Goranson [goranson at DUKE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:13 PM
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Subject: glitch antedated to 1955

OED and HDAS have glitch from 1962.

Billboard Oct 15, 1955 p.4 col. 1-4
Bell Telephone System adv.
They talk of Pigeons and Glitch

"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....

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

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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