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. Brush corroborated Tony Randall's radio recollection: That was when the novelist Katharine Brush wrote about glitch in her column "Out of My Mind" (syndicated in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other papers). Īccording to a Wall Street Journal article written by Ben Zimmer, Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro came up with the new earliest use of the word yet found: May 19, 1940. John Daily further defined the word on the July 4, 1965, episode of the same show, saying that it's a term used by the Air Force at Cape Kennedy, in the process of launching rockets, "it means something's gone wrong and you can't figure out what it is so you call it a 'glitch'." Later, on July 23, 1965, Time magazine felt it necessary to define it in an article: "Glitches-a spaceman's word for irritating disturbances." In relation to the reference by Time, the term has been believed to enter common usage during the American Space Race of the 1950s, where it was used to describe minor faults in the rocket hardware that were difficult to pinpoint.
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A glitch, however, is such a minute change in voltage that no fuse could protect against it. Normally, these changes in voltage are protected by fuses. You have probably noticed a dimming of lights in your home when you turn a switch or start the dryer or the television set. when anything goes wrong down there, they say there's been a slight glitch." Astronaut John Glenn explained the term in his section of the book Into Orbit, writing thatĪnother 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.
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It was first widely defined for the American people by Bennett Cerf on the June 20, 1965, episode of What's My Line as "a kink . Some reference books, including Random House's American Slang, claim that the term comes from the German word glitschen ("to slip") and the Yiddish word glitshn ("to slide", "to skid").