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Jennifer Tracey | 15:22 UK time, Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Nick Baker emailed yesterday asking: "So what shall we call this? The Mendelson, Osborne, Rothschild, Oleg Deripaska saga? Aluminum Gate?"

The Guardian, The Times and Sky News have decided that the brouhaha previously known the "donations" or "funding" row is now worthy of a "gate" suffix. Yachtgate.

The Times opts for 'Yachtgate'

iPM has been looking at gates. When Eddie blogged on the topic yesterday - it quickly descended into anagrams of the key players' names (eg. Mandelson = Loan Mends).

You want to play games? Name the 'gate' scandals of yesteryear depicted in the following images (and also share what you know about the 'gate' suffix, too).

1
No whitewash?

2
Close, but no cigar

3
Superwoman

4
The Thick of it

5
North star

6
Turn it up

Answers tomorrow.

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