<p class="title">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".</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Oxford dictionary, the word is a noun and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".</p>.<p class="bodytext">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."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book itself was relegated to the background as the word got Twitterati talking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I get a feeling of floccinaucinihilipilification when I don't know the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification," tweeted one of Tharoor's followers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the description of the book on Amazon, "Shashi Tharoor has stitched together a compelling portrait of this paradoxical figure (Narendra Modi),"</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Never before has there been such a superbly written and devastatingly accurate account of the most controversial prime minister India has ever had," it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tharoor's love for the language and propensity for little heard and little-used words is well known.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In May 2017, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram and author of 17 books got netizens talking when he described the coverage of the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar by a news channel as an "Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist".</p>.<p class="bodytext">In December last year, he used the word 'rodomontade', meaning boastful or inflated talk or behaviour. "I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea I want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!" he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">And in February this year, he introduced 'troglodytes' to the Twitter world in a response to Vinay Katiyar's comment on the Taj Mahal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We can’t let these troglodytes destroy our country & everything beautiful in it,” he tweeted. </p>
<p class="title">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".</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the Oxford dictionary, the word is a noun and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".</p>.<p class="bodytext">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."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book itself was relegated to the background as the word got Twitterati talking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I get a feeling of floccinaucinihilipilification when I don't know the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification," tweeted one of Tharoor's followers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the description of the book on Amazon, "Shashi Tharoor has stitched together a compelling portrait of this paradoxical figure (Narendra Modi),"</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Never before has there been such a superbly written and devastatingly accurate account of the most controversial prime minister India has ever had," it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Tharoor's love for the language and propensity for little heard and little-used words is well known.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In May 2017, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram and author of 17 books got netizens talking when he described the coverage of the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar by a news channel as an "Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist".</p>.<p class="bodytext">In December last year, he used the word 'rodomontade', meaning boastful or inflated talk or behaviour. "I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea I want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!" he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">And in February this year, he introduced 'troglodytes' to the Twitter world in a response to Vinay Katiyar's comment on the Taj Mahal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We can’t let these troglodytes destroy our country & everything beautiful in it,” he tweeted. </p>