Faldage - This adds new meaning to my Dad calling my brother and I "Peat and RePeat".

ofTroy - The meaning of "-gate", although not all that clear, has a certain sonant transparency coming from its original form that us 'older folk' who were there as the original "foolishness" unfolded have which young'ns don't.

The lack of dignity assigned to those working in the service industry (the public version of M+S) prompts me to not stoop so low as to take away their gender (did I say that ), and I'm not sure I have noticed any significant decrease (in 'waitress' at least) as you suggest (although most I know thumb their collective noses at anything with a mass motivation for PC.)

Was the Latin -ismus and the Greek -ismos refering to the same condition?