Why they say love in Tennis

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4-18-2008 3:56 AM

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  0, or nothing, is called 'love'. It is believed to come from the pronunciation of the
  French word 'l' oeuf', which sounds like 'love. The use of 'l'ouef', meaning 'egg', to
  denote nothing, is derived from the shape of an egg</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080227185712AAAQ1Mo" href="http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080227185712AAAQ1Mo" style="font-size: 11px;">au.answers.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080227185712AAAQ1Mo">
L'oeuf phonetically sounds like Love. The English thought that's what they were saying</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C36861C0-2A21-4353-BFA3-1BA3D3F25BFB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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