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paamayim nekudotayim

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
paa-may-im neku-do-tay-im
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The scope resolution operator :: in the PHP programming language.

Etymology

From Hebrew פעמיים נקודתיים (“double colon”); introduced in the Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. The correct word should be nekudatayim, but Israelis commonly say the word with this mistake.

Questions

What does paamayim nekudotayim mean?
The scope resolution operator :: in the PHP programming language.
Where does paamayim nekudotayim come from?
From Hebrew פעמיים נקודתיים (“double colon”); introduced in the Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. The correct word should be nekudatayim, but Israelis commonly say the word with this mistake.

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