[Ads-l] glitch (1940)

[Ben Zimmer]

Fred Shapiro shared the 1940 cite (as it appeared in the Washington Post)
back in 2010:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-July/101157.html

I credited Fred with the find in my Word Routes column about "glitch" in
2013. (I also contribute a cite from 1943.)

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-hidden-history-of-glitch/

--bgz


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:09 AM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> Older emails on this list have it from 1948. Again, more evidence that the
> general sense precedes the technical, electrical engineering sense. Also,
> both this and the 1948 instance are from radio, which shows a crossover
> path
> from the general to the engineering sense.
>
> Brush, Katherine. "Out of My Mind" (syndicated column). Miami Herald, 19
> May
> 1940, G2. NewsBank: America's 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."
>
>
>

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