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Floccinaucinihilipilification: Shashi Tharoor's latest tongue-twister in friendly banter with KTR

Floccinaucinihilipilification: Shashi Tharoor's latest tongue-twister in friendly banter with KTR

India Today
Saturday, May 22, 2021 12:32:24 AM UTC

Shashi Tharoor engaged in friendly banter with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao over his new tongue-twister word 'Floccinaucinihilipilification'.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head-scratcher floccinaucinihilipilification. I suspect @ShashiTharoor Ji Pakka has a role to play in this https://t.co/zO024Pq0Oa Not guilty! How can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification, @KTRTRS? Left to me I'd happily call them "CoroNil", "CoroZero", & even "GoCoroNaGo!" But these pharmacists are more procrustean.... https://t.co/YrIFSoVquo The noun, which had Twitterati once again running for their dictionaries, came up as Shashi Tharoor engaged in friendly banter with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao over Covid-19 medicine names. Oxford Dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless”.
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