[Ads-l] Antedating of "Glitch"

[Ben Zimmer]

This cite is from Katharine Brush's syndicated column "Out of My
Mind." Fred first shared it with us in 2010, when he found it in the
Washington Post about a week later on May 19, 1940:

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 (and contributed a cite from 1943).

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

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> glitch (OED 1962)
>
> 1940 Richmond News Leader 11 May 5/2 (Newspapers.com)
>
> 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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