After decades of journalists attaching the suffix "gate" to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as "Oceangate-gate"

[–] ThunderComplex 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never understood why gate is used as a suffix in this way.

[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It originated from the Watergate scandal iirc. Watergate being the Watergate hotel but I guess water and gate are easy to separate and -gate kind of works as a suffix.

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