Unhelpful Words: -gate

06Sep08

Today’s edition of unhelpful words comes in the form of a suffix: -gate.
It’s become common practice when covering any political scandal these days to name the event with -gate at the end. But it remains unclear what this suffix does to shine any more light on the story than simply reporting it would.
For example, in [...]

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