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Tennis Scoring Origin
What is the origin of the tennis scoring system?
Why does it start at 15 then go to 30 and then 40? Why do we use 'love' as the zero score?
at the beginning of tennis they used a clock for counting. the minutes of the clock determined the score 0, 15, 30, 45
later 45 was considered too long to pronounce, so it was changed to 40.
love for zero indeed comes from the french word l'oeuf (the egg)
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British tv short show about the origin of popular phrases?
Can't remember which channel it is on, but there is a 5 minute show on in between programming where a man explains the origins of popular phrases. I particularly remember one about sport phrases such as why Tennis uses the word Love for scoring (no points is represented by a 0 which is the same shape as an egg which in French is l'oeuf which sounds like love).
Does any one know the name of the show, the presenter or where I can see clips of the show? I have found other web sites with the etymology of phrases, but I really want to watch these ones again.
Thanks!
It was on Channel four around lunch time if remember correctly. Was it called "What's in a word?"
He normally chose a theme and just worked his way through all the phrases that had entered normal day usage but that had originated in a very specialized field. It was a fascinating programme that was educational at the same time.
I don't know where you'd find it now.
2 Responses to “Tennis Scoring Origin”
No, sorry, I really just don’t understand tennis scoring apparently. Luckily a bunch of people were nice enough to explain.
It's something like this
15-0 (15 Love) 15-15 (just say 15-15
30-0 (30 Love) 30-30 ( just say 30-30
40-0 (40 Love) 40-40 ( just say 40-40
and if you score again I think the match is over but im not sure,