And the Northwest Wind, Blue

Every fool has his day.

She wore blue zephyr.

 

"I am but mad north by north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." - Hamlet

Charles Cyphers from John Carpenter's Elvis movie, not to be confused with Jon Cypher from that other Elvis movie.

LOVE     Nothing; zero.  

NSOED: mid-18th cent. Source: EGG. Love is an Eng. mispronunciation of Fr. l'oeuf "the egg," which was once used by the French, in the game of tennis, to signify "no score" or "zero." The reason for the association of egg with zero was apparently the oval shape of both objects. The original Fr. word for "no score" was zero, and l'oeuf was a Fr. slang term for the same thing. When the English borrowed (court) tennis in the 1700s, they referred to "no score" by the slang term love rather than by the technical term zero. The English- and other Eng.-speaking people- still use love in tennis, but the French- and other Fr.-speaking people- have reverted to the more formal zero. The use of egg for "zero has also occurred in cricket (a duck's egg) and in baseball ( a goose egg, q.v.). The adj. oval (MWCD: 1577- fr. Lat. ovum "egg") is used to describe something that is egg-shaped, i.e., has the shape of an elongated spheroid, with one end wider than the other. (The larger end is positioned upward when storing in the refrigerator, whereas the smaller end is positioned upward in an egg cup.) 

In spite of the fact that the outline of an egg is not symmetrical, the noun oval (MWCD:1570) has been applied to objects that are: e.g., a racetrack for horses or cars, which is really a rectangle with rounded corners. EWPO; MDWPO; SA.

 

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