Names for the number 0 in English the score was not placed upon a scoreboard, and there is scant evidence that the French ever used "l'oeuf" as the name for a zero score in the first place, that name being as anecdotal as the hypothesis that "love" is then derived from it. (Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his "Letter to a Friend", used "à but" to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is "love-all".) Some alternative hypotheses have similar problems. For example: The assertion that "love" comes from the Scots word "luff", meaning "nothing", falls at the first hurdle, because there is
Zero-marking in English and indefinite has to be made. The zero article is used with meals. The zero article is used when describing calendar years. The zero article is used before titles There is variation among dialects concerning which words may be used without the definite article. Standard American English, for example, requires "the" before "hospital". In some dialects in the North of England, especially in Lancashire and Yorkshire, the pronunciation of the word "the" is commonly abbreviated. In these regions, the definite article may also be reduced to , , or a glottal stop (often spelled "t′" or "th′"). Indian English frequently