Tharoor uses 29-letter word to announce book on PM

He wrote: My book is more than a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification

New Delhi, Oct. 10: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor 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 400page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification”.

According to the Oxford dictionary, the word is a noun and means “the

action or habit of estimating something as worthless”. Discussing 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.”

“My new book, The Paradoxical prime Minister, is more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification. Pre-order it to find out

why!” Tharoor said in a Twitter post that had everybody reaching for the dictionary. The book itself was relegated to the background as the word got Twitterati talking.

“I get a feeling of floccinaucinihilipilification when I don’t know the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification,” tweeted one of Tharoor’s followers. “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.

The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon. According to the description of the book on Amazon, “Shashi Tharoor has stitched together a compelling portrait of this paradoxical figure (Narendra Modi),” “Never before has there been such

a superbly written and devastatingly accurate account of the most controversial BOOK | LAUNCH prime minister India has ever had,” it said.