why are major scandals in America referred to as Gate’s, for example Watergate ?

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why are major scandals in America referred to as Gate’s, for example Watergate ?

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Watergate is the name of the hotel Nixon had his people bug.

Since then, everything big enough gets the “gate” suffix, even though it doesn’t really mean anything.

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