new delhi congress leader shashi tharoor known for his penchant for rarely used difficulttopronounce english words on friday threw in another head scratcher floccinaucinihilipilificationthe noun which had twitterati once again running for their dictionaries came up as tharoor engaged in friendly banter with trs working president k t rama rao over covid19 medicine namesoxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthlessit started with rama rao or ktr as he is popularly called wondering why medicine names are so tough to pronounceon a lighter note any idea who comes up with this unpronounceable names for meds posaconazole cresemba tocilzumab remdesivir liposomal amphoterecin flavipiravir molnupiravir baricitinib and the list goes on he said on thursday nighthe tagged the tweet and added in another post tongue firmly in cheek i suspect shashitharoor ji pakka has a role to play in this tharoor responded to the telangana rashtra samiti leader popularly known as ktr in the same spiritnot guilty how can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification ktrtrs left to me id happily call them coronil corozero even gocoronago but these pharmacists are more procrustean the mp from thiruvnanthapuram tweetedthe authorpolitician had slipped in another notusedsooften word but there was scarcely any attention on procrustean an adjective defined by oxford as especially of a framework or system enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation or individuality the focus was on the manysyllabled floccinaucinihilipilification 29 letters and three more than the english alphabetaccording to the cambridge dictionary the honour of being the longest nontechnical word goes to floccinaucinihilipilificationit also said its an 18thcentury coinage that combines four latin prefixes meaning nothingseveral people responded to tharoors post with many joking about how difficult it was to pronounce the word and many others sharing memes on ittharoor has been a man of many words earlier too in the past he has stumped people with rarely used english words such as farrago and troglodyte while farrago means a confused mixture a troglodyte means a person regarded as being deliberately ignorant or oldfashioned