The suffix -gate has been added to random words to suggest a scandal for some time now - 1972, to be exact - and some people have had enough. For me, pastygate was a gate too far, but for others it might have been bigotgate or cablegate (covered here in 2010).
This article in the Chicago Tribune argues that it's time to shut the gate for good and find new ways of labelling scandals. It's also good for those of you looking at Language Change and how new words enter the language, so helpful for ENGA3 revision.
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