BEHIND THE WORD:
Why score zero is called love in tennis was a question that kept my eyes wide open gooogling though I am in ……zzzzzz….. mood after a heavy lunch.www.oxforddictionaries.com banged with two maybe reasons.
Reason 1:l’ouef is the French word for egg.So as love in French refers to egg and egg resembles cipher, I think the point is made.
Reason 2:’to play for love’ is a phrase meaning to play for just fun and not for winning or anything else.So ‘to play for love’ can be taken as ‘to play for nothing’.And thus love became a hint word for nil or nothing.
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