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Word: ero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to ask omniscient TIME a queson arising from the fact that tennis is international, I, provincial. This summer, Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not feature stated that the tennis ero score "love" originated as an Anglicized pronunciation of the French words l'oeuf, meaning egg. Do non-English speaking tennists call he zero score by the English word "love," or by their native words for: 1) love, 2) egg, 3) ;ero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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