Such usages have been criticized by some commentators as clichéd and misleading. As a CBC News column noted in 2001, the term may "suggest unethical behaviour and a cover-up". The suffix has become productive as a libfix and is used to embellish a noun or name to suggest the existence of a far-reaching scandal, particularly in politics and government. The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 19. The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. Use of the -gate suffix has spread beyond American English to many other countries and languages.Įtymology, usage, and history of -gate This list also includes controversies that are widely referred to with a -gate suffix, but may be referred to by another more common name (such as the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, known as "Bountygate"). This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a -gate suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which the suffix has (often facetiously) been applied. The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., the inspiration for the -gate suffix following the Watergate scandal
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