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
Word Up (video game) Feature list The mobile and tablet versions of Word Soup also feature global high score tables through Scoreloop or Game Center, depending upon the platform. Word Up (video game) Word Up also known as Word Soup is a popular SWP (skill with prize) game. Located on the itbox and other terminals, the game was developed by Big Fizz Games. Similar to other word games such as Scrabble, Boggle, and Bookworm; the object of the game is to create valid words from a randomised selection of letter tiles arranged in a 13x9 matrix. Each word scores points according to the letters