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Why does any phrase or word get fashionable? It just caught the mood of the time.

Q: Why were so many scandals named with the suffix gate after the Watergate scandal?

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Why does any phrase or word get fashionable? It just caught the mood of the time.

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We form nouns from the names of people,places or things by using -gate as suffix to them. This suffix means " connected". Like Memo-Gate Scandal in Pakistan means Scandal connected with memo or like Water-gate Scandle that brought about the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. -Abid Ali Durrani Sukkur

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spiteful
beautiful
colorful

Follow the link to Wiktionary's list of words with -ful suffix

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hatefully
joyfully
gratefully
truthfully
tearfully

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