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Example sentences for: athon

How can you use “athon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
It will not do to heap scorn on -athon and denounce athoninators as licentious with language.
The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.
A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.
But even in these extensions of the word, - athon was only part of a placename, even though now regularly applied to physical activities, and had no meaning on its own in either English or the original Greek.