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There are at least three different words in modern English that are written "score":

  • a musical score
  • the result of a game, the number of points, goals or runs
  • the number 20

All of these have their origin in the Old Norse (Scandinavian) word skor, a mark, tally, scratched line, or the number 20. The idea of keeping count of sheep (for example) by cutting notches in a stick, probably with a different type of mark for each 20, was later extended to the sense of a sports result and the scoring of lines on paper for writing sheet music.

Many Old Norse words passed into English as a result of the Viking occupation of large tracts of England in the Saxon/Viking era (the Danelaw).

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