Could we stop using -gate to mean scandal? it has very little context outside of watergate which was actually the full name of the hotel, and was also called "the watergate scandal" not simply "watergate"
Is there a real reason for it? or is it just unfashionable to use the word "scandal"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate...
Off the top of my head: “a napkin” used to be “an apkin”, “a lute” used to be “al ’ud” (“the lute”, in Arabic); “an orange” used to be “a norange”, and moreover, the colour is named after the fruit—we used to call the colour “yellowred” (geoluread, in Old English).
Language evolves in messy and illogical ways.
Note that juncture loss may have occurred in a different language before a word reached English; for example, orange did not develop in English from *a norange, but rather the juncture loss occurred in Old French and Anglo-Norman orenge, or possibly in Italian.
I think you are thinking of "a napron" became "an apron"
another good one is pease sounded like a plural so pease soup became pea soup. Pease porridge hot, anyone?