Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Yiddish ·1960s
Glitch
from glitsh — "slip, slide"
- Meaning
- A slip; a minor slip or slide.
- Source word
- glitsh — "slip, slide"
- Route into English
- Yiddish → American English → NASA engineering slang in the early 1960s → general tech vocabulary. The technical specialisation happened fast.
- Arrived
- 1960s
From Yiddish
Mass migration from Ashkenazi Eastern Europe to New York (1880–1920) funnelled Yiddish into American English, from where it diffused globally.
English borrows.
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