183) 30/10/2008
Today I learnt the probable reason why the word "love" is used for zero in tennis. The French used to say l'ouef (egg) to symbolise zero points. (An egg being the shape of a zero). Then the English appropriated this as "love" because that's what it phonetically sounded like. The phrase stuck.
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Quite simply: I write down one new thing I've learned each day.
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