Monday, August 1, 2011

Fifteen

The term for the first point of a game won by a player. The origins of this unreasonable designation of a single point are unknown, and that's probably because it's so silly that nobody has ever wanted to claim credit for it. The same is true of thirty, as meaning two points, and forty as signifying three points. Why they are not simply called one, two, and three, respectively, passeth all understanding.

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