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"

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 22 points 1 month ago

After some thought, I've decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as "Oceangate-gate-gate"

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.