Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year

Here’s more proof that emojis are on their way to replacing the English language.

Oxford Dictionaries just announced their word of the year for 2015, and they picked: an emoji. Specifically, a smiley face that’s laughing so hard TEARS are coming out of its eyes. Apparently it’s the most used emoji in the U.S. and the U.K.

The editors say: “Although emojis have been a staple of texting teens for some time, emoji culture exploded into the global mainstream over the past year. Emojis have come to embody a core aspect of living in a digital world.”

Even though an emoji is the word of the year, they say they don’t have any plans to add them to their dictionaries — yet. The actual wprd”emoji” has been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2013.



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