Moot point

In this age of moot points—some mooter than others, others possibly a shade less moot than some—perhaps the mootest point of any is, What is happening to the drama now that July 1st is behind us? This surely is a point of which the mootness cannot escape the most ivory-domed.

Exactly which of the songs on Small Change originated in London is a moot point.

It is possible that a special hawthorn grew on this hill hundreds of years ago and that it was a meeting place. Hawthorns marked moots, or assemblies to decide issues of local importance and manorial courts. This one may still be a “moot point” – something arguable, undecided, contested, its original function lost generations ago.

Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.

Who really owned that horse is a moot point now that it has run away.