Trivia

[martin213]

In the days before 'trains,planes and automobiles',how was mail delivered?

And where did the term 'post office' derive from?

Well........

One person could ride all the way up the A1,from London to Scotland,but alas the horses couldn't

So it was arranged that every 8 miles along the A1 there would be a 'post',tied to it would be a local horse,fresh from it's sleepybyes,ready to do the next 8 mile stint

Not a lot of people know that

(now who will be the 1st person to say "Not a lot of people actually want to know that")

[martin213]

I bet it will be DTB

[pre65]

Hi-no wonder Dick Turpins horse gave up the ghost on his run from Londinium to York !

Perhaps he should have pinched a "post" horse every 8 miles.

Do you know where your nearest "post" is Martin ?

[martin213]

South Witham i believe Philip

I bet DTB is skiving,creating BOBA mk 2

[martin213]

Hi-no wonder Dick Turpins horse gave up the ghost on his run from Londinium to York !

Perhaps he should have pinched a "post" horse every 8 miles.

[Dave the bass]

DTB

[pre65]

Now that is interesting !

He was my hero in my younger days,as we are both Romford boys !!

Is that a horse "post" he is leaning against ??

[Dave the bass]

Now that is interesting !

He was my hero in my younger days,as we are both Romford boys !!

Is that a horse "post" he is leaning against ??

ESSEX BOYS

That isn't a post... thats a window frame.... or is it a snooker frame, I dunno.

DTB

[martin213]

Now that is interesting !

He was my hero in my younger days,as we are both Romford boys !!

Is that a horse "post" he is leaning against ??

ESSEX BOYS

That isn't a post... thats a window frame.... or is it a snooker frame, I dunno.

DTB

Random

[martin213]

DTB

Rhubarb

[martin213]

This was a 'sensible' topic,well it started off that way......

[andrew Ivimey]

But do you know where the term 'trivia' comes from?

[pre65]

I do now !

The etymology of the word trivia seems to start with Latin tri- = "three", and via = "way", "road", thus trivium, which has been treated in two ways:

* "Where three roads meet", especially as a place of public resort. The Latin adjective triviālis, derived from trivium, thus meant "appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar." The first known usage of the word "trivial" in Modern English is from 1589; it was used with a sense identical to that of triviālis. Shortly after that trivial is recorded in the sense most familiar to us: "of little importance or significance." Gradually, the word trivia came to be used in English for what in Latin would have called "triviālia", for anything information or concern which is treated as everyday and unimportant.

[Dave the bass]

But do you know where the term 'trivia' comes from?

Yes, but it's just trivial.

Ha! See what I did there I used the word Tri.... oh never mind

DTB

[andrew Ivimey]

Yes but that's where it gets very interesting ....

tri via, or where three roads meet which was quite a common thing to find in a Roman town or city. And always at the tri via was a shrine to the little goddess of women's things (I think it was symbolised as some sort of frog!

pre christian days of course.

Now consider in the patriarchal society we live in and from whence we sprang, the use of trivia as to quote, 'anything information or concern which is treated as everyday and unimportant.'

Your etymological dictionary only scratches the surface.

women's things = trivial.

Whereas Roman women were perhaps treated somewhat differently to the way women maybe today, just a cultural thing - it was very important to the Christian Church; to ban and or ridicule, outlaw and crush any form of power or wisdom that was not directly controlled by men for men.