Names for the number 0 in English a formal reading of a team's scoresheet. There is no definitive origin for the tennis score name for 0, "love". It firstly occurred in English, is of comparatively recent origin, and is not used in other languages. The most commonly believed hypothesis is that it is derived from English speakers mis-hearing the French "l'œuf", "the egg", which was the name for a score of zero used in French, because the symbol for a zero used on the scoreboard was an elliptical zero symbol, which visually resembled an egg. There is tangential support for this in the use of "duck" as
Anyone for tennis? Anyone for tennis? The phrase Anyone for tennis? is thought to have originated from George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play "Misalliance", in which Johnny Tarleton asks "Anybody on for a game of tennis?" This phrase is often used to typify a particular genre of drawing room comedy about the leisured upper class. This phrase has been used several times in popular culture, including in the song "Beautiful Girl" in the movie musical "Singin' in the Rain," and as the title of a song by the British blues-rock band Cream. It is also mentioned in the popular 1975 song "Patricia the Stripper"