“Floccinaucinihilipilification,” said Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2012. And the nation swooned.
It’s the longest word ever to be used in the Commons (meaning: to find something worthless, origin: Latin bantz at Eton) and it brought the MP for North East Somerset a taste of viral fame he has increasingly come to enjoy since being elected in 2010.
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