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  The Watergate was the name of the hotel Nixon's goons broke into. Affixing the word "gate" as a suffix is understood to mean a scandal because languages change over time.
  This particular change happened because people are stupid as stumps and care more about the perception of a scandal than the reason it is scandalous.
context: Tired of scandals ending with “gate.” I used to play a video game called Shadowgate, and it wasn’t about a groundhog taking bribes.