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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
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Subject: Re: Re: the word "love" in English...
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> 
> And for that matter, "nothing," as in tennis -- "Six-love."
> 

This usage, of course, has a completely different derivation, and is in
fact a mis-pronounciation by the British of the French word l'oeuf (egg,
colloquially used to mean zero), and the rest is history.

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