'Thang Hoog Hats'? Shashi Tharoor's Typo Has Twitter Going 'Hain?'

Shashi Tharoor and his extensive vocabulary have become the stuff of pop culture legend (remember 'exasperating farrago...'?) It comes as no surprise, then, that when he used a word on Twitter that nobody had heard of before, people immediately began to search for it in their dictionaries. This time, however, the Congress leader wasn't putting his fancy vocabulary to use, for it was simply a typo.

Mr Tharoor's hilarious typo was seen in a tweet on the film 'Padmavati'. The tweet was shared by him on November 13. In his tweet, he wrote 'thang Hoog hats' instead of what he actually intended - 'than ghoonghats'- thanks to autocorrect.
 

Agree totally. The #Padmavati controversy is an opportunity to focus on the conditions of Rajasthani women today &not just of queens six centuries ago. Rajasthan's female literacy among lowest. Education more important thang Hoog hats https://t.co/82rvGmkfwO

- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017

Mr Tharoor immediately corrected himself
 

Just realised that dreaded autocorrect has changed "than goonghats" to " thang hoong hats". Apologies. When I hit "tweet" I was still seeing the correct words I'd typed https://t.co/aQzEGfBuJq

- Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017

However, by that time, many on Twitter were already wondering what 'thang Hoog hats' meant.
 

I googled the words n was trying to make sense out of them

Hoong : Boy's name meaning, origin, and popularity

Thang: non-standard spelling of thing representing Southern US pronunciation, typically used to denote a feeling or tendency.

- Saket Aloni (@SaketAloni) November 13, 2017

And there we were, thinking you were teaching us some new English words

- sanjana singh (@princesssiggy) November 13, 2017

Hahaha! You do realize everyone's gonna start looking for the word "thang hoong hats" :)

- riddhi singh (@riddhineeta) November 13, 2017

Many also wondered if thang hoog hats would become the new covfefe
 

Will Thang hoog hats break the internetz today? Will it displace covfefe?

- Kiran Manral (@KiranManral) November 13, 2017

This, of course, is not the first time that the curse of autocorrect has plagued celebs. In October this year, author Chetan Bhagat blamed autocorrect for a grammatical error. More recently, actor Mahira Khan shared a hilarious screenshot showing how she and her mom became victims of autocorrect.