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

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Well, that's more a pun than a -gate type coining.  Altho it seems to me
> that the -gate thing started out as a pun.  I believe Whitewatergate was
> the first, which, if so, would've been a simple pun based on Watergate.\
Good lord, no.  There has been a steady stream of transient political words
in -gate for every scandal since 1972.  I remember "Briefingate" particularly.

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