Why is the word love used in tennis? July 31, 2007
Posted by aniisah in QnA.1 comment so far
Long ago, no score was indicated on French tennis scorecards by an egg-shaped zero. This was unknown as “L’oeuf’, the French word for egg, and the English-speaking players used the name word, but in this case it sounded like love, and has been called love ever since.
