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  • “The term love in tennis allegedly comes from the French word oeuf, meaning egg or zero.”

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  • “Love SoupAn esoteric etymology here: "love" which in tennis means "zero," comes from the French l'oeuf, meaning "the egg.”

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  • “Audio File:: Listen to my daughter, Jackie, pronounce "gober un oeuf" (gobble an egg): Download gober. mp3.”

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  • “Once in a while, though, I still have the chance to "gober un oeuf".”

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  • “In fact, when I was little, my greatest delight was to "gober un oeuf"!”

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  • “Dieu merci = thank God; gober = to gobble; deux = two; c'est-à-dire = that is to say; la calanque (f) = rocky inlet (from the sea); une piqûre (f) = injection; gober un oeuf = to gobble an egg; l'arrière-pays (m) = hinterland; la ferme”

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  • “Michael more or less nailed it except that the intention was to 'translate' a joke with the punchline ' Because un oeuf is enough'.”

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  • “Q: Pourquoi Nicolas Sarkozy mange-t-il qu'un oeuf pour le petit dejeuner?”

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  • “J'en ai eu tellement marre de perdre du poids que j'ai posé mon cul TOUTE la journee devant la tele manette de play2 toute neuve a la main et j'ai joué en bouffant gros oeuf en chocolat paket de chips cahuete pistaches etc ...”

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  • “Newton, illustre penseur anglais, était un jour absorbe dans ses profondes méditations philosophiques, lorsque sa domestique entra dans son cabinet de travail; elle apportait une casserole et un oeuf frais qu'elle voulait faire cuire en présence du maître, pour qu'il fût [1] à point; c'était le déjeuner habituel du savant.”

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