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211. Four Letter Words: -gate
The other day was the 53rd anniversary of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, which not only caused a lot of political uproar, it had a big linguistic legacy: the suffix -gate to mean a scandal. Today, as part of Four L...
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211. Four Letter Words: -gate is an episode from The Allusionist by Helen Zaltzman. The other day was the 53rd anniversary of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, which not only caused a lot of political uproar, it had a big linguistic lega...
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Published Jun 23, 2025, 00:37:03 long, audio available.
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