On a side note, you mentioned the use of “goose egg” as “zero score” back in http://www.word-detective.com/072104.html where you were were addressing the phrase “to break one’s duck” with a side mention of “love” as a score in tennis possibly being a reference to “l’oeuf”, French for “the egg”.
scott hall:
June 2nd, 2013 at 11:13 pm
I am the ignominious cricketer who suffered a ‘double duck’. Shown on the scorer’s sheet as a zero encircling a zero, it connotes that the batsman was out on the first ball with zero score. I managed to do this twice in a row and may be the only person in the world to claim a consecutive quadruple duck.
I wonder what Christopher Robin would say about that?
Probably, like me, something to do with Pooh.
Dusty:
May 9th, 2016 at 10:16 am
“out for a duck” is British and it’s a CRICKET TERM. Try using Google.
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Sean Duggan:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
On a side note, you mentioned the use of “goose egg” as “zero score” back in http://www.word-detective.com/072104.html where you were were addressing the phrase “to break one’s duck” with a side mention of “love” as a score in tennis possibly being a reference to “l’oeuf”, French for “the egg”.
scott hall:
June 2nd, 2013 at 11:13 pm
I am the ignominious cricketer who suffered a ‘double duck’. Shown on the scorer’s sheet as a zero encircling a zero, it connotes that the batsman was out on the first ball with zero score. I managed to do this twice in a row and may be the only person in the world to claim a consecutive quadruple duck.
I wonder what Christopher Robin would say about that?
Probably, like me, something to do with Pooh.
Dusty:
May 9th, 2016 at 10:16 am
“out for a duck” is British and it’s a CRICKET TERM. Try using Google.