#what in the world is a selfiegate then? a selfie scandal??
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what does it mean when you attach the suffix ' -gate' to words? like 'petgate', 'selfiegate', 'cupcakegate' etc?? i've seen them around the past couple of years and i still have no idea what it means, and googling it gives unclear/completely unrelated results
#i pride myself for having a decently good understanding of english for a non-native speaker but some things i really just have no idea lol#one definition i saw is it being used to refer to scandals which i understand but#what in the world is a selfiegate then? a selfie scandal??#cupcake scandal???#the examples i gave are how i've seen it being used online btw i didn't just make those up#are there other definitions?#idk man english is hard#hydn.txt
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