Why Do Scandals End In "-gate"?
Learn more about why scandals and controversies always end in -gate
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I’m sure all of you are familiar with Watergate. You also might be familiar with Gamergate, Contragate, Pizzagate, Partygate, Chinagate, Deflategate, Sandpapergate, Winegate, and Chinagate.
There are dozens and dozens more of these scandals which have all been named with the suffix -gate.
But why do scandals get affixed with -gate in the English language, and where did the word originally come from?
Learn more about scandals ending in -gate, and why this suffix came to denote a scandal, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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