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Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]

From:Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...>
Date:Saturday, October 30, 1999, 5:29
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>=20 > ... it seems to me that the -gate thing started out as a pun. I =
believe
> Whitewatergate was the first,
Oh, no. The -gate suffix for scandals other than Watergate precedes = the Whitewater scandal by many years. Koreagate was during the late 70's. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm =20 Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance = as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse = 96-99