Names for the number 0 in English no authoritative evidence that there has ever been any such word in Scots in the first place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word "love" in English to mean "zero" was to define how a game was to be played, rather than the score in the game itself. Gambling games could be played for stakes (money) or "for love (of the game)", i.e. for zero stakes. The first such recorded usage quoted in the OED was in 1678. The shift in meaning from "zero stakes" to "zero score" is not an enormous conceptual leap, and
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