Posted By:
J(from plural of Latin trivium: crossroads, influenced by Latin trivialis: trivial): unimportant matters: TRIFLES ("much of our research is wasted on~"--P.G. Hoffman..AND THE LIKE.
There's nothing in the dictionary saying "trivia" has to deal with facts and figures which aren't important,
but perhaps in sports terminology, it HAS come to mean that. Thus my STORY about Jackson and Gleason was not germaine.
It doesn't seem to me, however, that your posts about "dog's breath" and "cat's breath"--or your suggestion that I invest in a whole flock of books about the English language--were designed to be particularly helpful. WHAT?