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English In Use - Pawtergate

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

The Sun reported from the international dog show, Crufts, where allegedly one of the judges awarded a top prize to her sister's dog, a Gordon setter in the Best Gundog category.   The headline was "Pawtergate", using a pun on the infamous "Watergate" scandal.

The byline was also quite fun, "Things get wuff at Crufts", which is a pun on "things get rough", as in problematic.  Wuff describes a dog's suppressed bark.

!Note - Following Watergate, we often use the word "gate" as a suffix to describe any sort of scandal.

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