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Not sure if you're joking but the original "-gate" = political scandal was the break-in at the DNC headquarters in the Watergate Hotel by people connected to the Nixon administration.
So this is either a TIL or "I met a pedant with no sense of humor on the Internet" moment for you
Oh, you mean Watergategate?
At least we didn't call it Whitewatergate.