Oxford dictionaries' word of the year for 2015 isn't a word at all, it's an emoji. Oxford announced on Monday that its official word of the year for 2015 was the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji. This ...

Oxford Dictionaries made history on Monday by announcing that their “Word of the Year” would not be one of those old-fashioned, string-of-letters-type words at all. The flag their editors are planting ...

In a move that would probably cause George Orwell to roll over in his grave, the dictionary maker announced on Monday that this year’s word of the year was the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji. Emojis ...

Oxford Dictionaries has named its pick for Word of the Year — and it’s less a pick than a pic. That’s right: out of all the newly popular “words” to capture the “ethos, mood, and preoccupations of ...

The folks at Oxford Dictionaries are clearly well trained in the techniques of effective marketing. For its Word of the Year, it’s selected not a word but an emoji, guaranteeing itself plenty of ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

Emojis were invented in 1999 by a Japanese artist named Shigetaka Kurita. In the early 2000s, emojis began appearing in various apps and platforms outside of Japan. By 2010, Unicode officially adopted ...

Oxford Dictionaries announced this week that the 2015 Word of the Year is not a word at all but an emoji — more specifically the “face with tears of joy” emoji. This is the first time since the ...