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 grammar broken. In Beoƿulf, for example, main clauses frequently have verb-initial or verb-final order, and subordinate clauses often have verb-second order. (However, in clauses introduced by "þā", which can mean either "when" or "then", and where word order is crucial for telling the difference, the normal word order is nearly always followed.) Those linguists who work within the Chomskyan transformational grammar paradigm often believe that it is more accurate to describe Old English (and other Germanic languages with the same word-order patterns like modern German) as having underlying subject-object-verb (SOV) ordering. According to this theory, all sentences are initially generated using