The story
- Hebrew · derived fromפעמיים נקודתיים“double colon”
- English todaypaamayim nekudotayim
From Hebrew פעמיים נקודתיים (“double colon”); introduced in the Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. The correct word is nekudatayim, but Israelis commonly say the word with this mistake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.