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'A High-Speed Moron' Prompts a Language Lesson

NPR | By John Ciardi
Published March 16, 2006 at 10:15 AM MST

The word glitch may appear at first glance to be a piece of modern slang, like Snafu. But the fact is that it has been around for at least a century in American slang, and much longer before that in Europe.

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