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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday once again introduced Twitterati and the literati to a difficult, near unpronounceable word, describing his new book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification".
According to the Oxford dictionary, the word is a noun and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".
My new book, THE PARADOXICAL PRIME MINISTER, is more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification. Pre-order it to find out why!https://t.co/yHuCh2GZDMDiscussing the usage of the word, the dictionary adds, "Floccinaucinihilipilification is one of a number of very long words that occur very rarely in genuine use."
- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 10, 2018
I'm sorry if one of my tweets y'day gave rise to an epidemic of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!After leaving panic with people trying to pronounce the words, he made the announcement while using another very long word - one that specifically refers to the fear of long words.
[Don't bother looking it up: it's just a word describing a fear of long words].
But #TheParadoxicalPrimeMinister contains no words longer than Paradoxical! https://t.co/8h0zkcHnb2
- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 11, 2018
Apologies for doing this to the young! https://t.co/QIoZnY9CEDThe book itself was relegated to the background as the word got Twitterati talking.
- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 10, 2018
Apologies for doing this to the young! https://t.co/QIoZnY9CED
- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 10, 2018
Sir I Google it then pronounced it almost 10 times
I also pre ordered The paradoxical prime Minister
- Prabhat Singh (@Prabhat33630244) October 10, 2018
We love it always - reinventing the words !! In this context , could manage to find out a word that surpass floccinaucinihilipilification interms of alphabets - "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
- VISHNU RADHAKRISHNAN (@VISHNUR35658602) October 10, 2018
Dont worry i have more big words than u easy to prononce #shashitharoor #havefun #Comedycircus #EnglishHubs pic.twitter.com/m0FO5QRALZ
- munnabhai_ips (@munnabhai_ips) October 11, 2018
Dr. Shashi Tharoor's new book "THE PARADOXICAL PRIME MINISTER", launches with a new addition to the Vocabulary "FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION"@ShashiTharoor @khushsundar @SimmiAhuja_ @JayasreeVijayan @kurup62 @DrSanjeevRajp4 @anushreearun13 @Anish_Cherian @prakashraaj pic.twitter.com/9TZ355hjiM
- VishakhCherian (@VishakhCherian) October 10, 2018
I am wondering what Shashi Tharoor's Siri is like. Does she ask Shashi the meanings of words instead of it being the other way round?"What my English teachers taught was a lie. Won't order it as I cannot take out the dictionary everytime," said another person in reply to Tharoor's tweet.
- Alok Badri (@alok_TTID) October 10, 2018
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