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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Glitch #112994 10/01/03 02:59 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales OP old hand OP stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia In researching (unsuccessfully) the origin of 'glitch" I stumbled across the following: http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/VicN2/vicN2.html Whilst far fetched in the extreme; this is priceless stuff. And there's hours of fun in the hyperlinks as well! Check out "The Young Man's Book of Amusement". wonder where I can get myself a ton of iron filings and a ton of sulfur.....? Have fun! stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Glitch #112995 10/01/03 03:23 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 What unsuccessful? Obviously Ernest is the eponym. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Glitch #112996 10/01/03 04:17 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky stales, how lovely to see you! Here you go: glitch - 1962, Amer.Eng., possibly from Yiddish glitsh "a slip," from glitshn "to slip," from Ger. glitschen, and related gleiten "to glide." Perhaps directly from Ger.; it began as technical jargon in the argot of electronic hardware engineers, popularized and given a broader meaning by U.S. space program. http://www.etymonline.com/g2etym.htm That was a cute letter; I wonder if it's true, about the iron filings and sulphur... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Glitch #112997 10/01/03 10:21 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 > wonder if it's true... hint: Do you have a contact within the science fiction publishing industry? Please refer them to this page www.lateralscience.co.uk/glitch :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,910 Posts229,097 Members9,175 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Standy, Teytonon, jgronk71, gronk1964, MiscPractice 9,175 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 193 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 26 A C Bowden 14 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,366 LukeJavan8 9,909 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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