Timeline for Origin of the word "glitch"
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 21:17 | comment | added | user184130 | The fact that those first two reference put the word in scare quotes suggest that it was not widely understood and so, presumably, had not been in use for long before then. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 13:31 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | Corresponds (in usage) to OED's first given usage in 1962, by John Glenn: "Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch’. Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it... A glitch..is such a minute change in voltage that no fuse could protect against it. OED says etymology unknown, but Green's dict of slang says Ger. glitschen, to slip, via Yid. glitshen | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | T. Ioca | Great research! That's really interesting. I wonder if it came into American English via German technicians and scientists who came to work on the rocket program and in other areas after 1945. Is there an equivalent forum for the German language, does anyone know? EDIT: Oh, just saw Peter Shor made the same point earlier. Teach me to read right through first! | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 1:24 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
A few minor fixes.
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 1:04 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |