A plea (trivia specialist)

Tue Oct 19 17:41:23 UTC 1999

Remembering the Greek word spermologia, I looked up Spermology in the OED
and found "an instance of babbling or trivial talk."  Could not this serve
to support the term "spermologist" as a "trivialist"?
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Subject: A plea (trivia specialist)


> "Prof. Roly Sussex" <sussex at LINGUA.ARTS.UQ.EDU.AU> asks
>
> >>>>>
> A colleague has asked me if there is a special term for an
> expert in trivia. Apart from triviaphile and triviologist,
> I have a nagging suspicion that I have seen such a word,
> perhaps in Josepha Heifetz ... Can anyone help?
> <<<<<
>
> Can we coin "triviast"?
>
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