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  • I heard that it's because the French called it l'oef, which means egg, because it's that shape. L'oef sounded like love to the English speaker, so it stuck. It sounds a bit suspect, but we do say "out for a duck" when someone gets zero in cricket, which again relates to the egg-shape of the zero.

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