Names for the number 0 in English such as 2-2, while null is used for an undefined states (for example a memory location that has not been explicitly initiated). Sporting terms (see above) are sometimes used as slang terms for zero as are "nada", "zilch" and "zip". "Zilch" is a slang term for zero, and it can also mean "nothing". The origin of the term is unknown. Names for the number 0 in English Zero is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English "nought" is also used. In American English "naught" is used occasionally for zero, but as with British English, "naught"
Old English literature the Bible ("Old English Hexateuch"), portions have been assigned to Ælfric on stylistic grounds. He included some lives of the saints in the "Catholic Homilies", as well as a cycle of saints' lives to be used in sermons. Ælfric also wrote an Old English work on time-reckoning, and pastoral letters. In the same category as Ælfric, and a contemporary, was Wulfstan II, archbishop of York. His sermons were highly stylistic. His best known work is "Sermo Lupi ad Anglos" in which he blames the sins of the English for the Viking invasions. He wrote a number of clerical legal texts