A WORD IN THE HAND: GATE
SUE DE GROOT | Let’s lock the ‘gate’ and throw away the key
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
14 January 2021 - 19:30
The hashtag #Capitolgate has been trending on Twitter since a herd of flag-waving bison crashed their way into the US legislature on January 6. This is hardly surprising. Twitter demands that catchy little nicknames be appended to almost everything, and Capitolgate is easier to spell than, say, “subhumanmoronsdeclarethemselvesmoralguardiansoftheuniverse”. ..
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