Antony Moxey
Very well known Exeweb poster
People who stick ‘gate’ on the end of a word to indicate a scandal, politicos and journalists in particular are serial offenders. The original scandal ‘Watergate’ wasn’t the water scandal that someone stuck gate on the end of, Watergate is all one word so why people insist on putting part of that word on the end is anyone’s guess. I suppose they think they’re being clever. I wonder why they didn’t put water at the beginning?