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Example sentences for: athon

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It describes in spirit, at least, how neomorphemes like -athon, -tigue, -burger, -(a)teria, -alator, -ercize/-icize, -ician, -aholic, -on, -capade, -cade, -alyzer, -gate, heli-, docu- have become affixes.
Telethon seems here to stay, sanctioned by dictionaries, but no dictionary records the next innovation with -athon , and I can only guess that the new suffix began attaching to other base elements in the 1950s and '60s.
It will not do to heap scorn on -athon and denounce athoninators as licentious with language.
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.
But utility alone has not kept -athon current.