The meaning of emoji—just like words—isn’t static either ... as well as promotional fests from a jumble of sponsors that ranged from the country of Finland to Taco Bell to the U.S ...

reporting from san francisco — When the Oxford English Dictionary declared an emoji its 2015 word of the year, it was a bit of a head-scratcher. The emoji it singled out — an image of a ...

An emoji is worth 1,000 words and all of these emoji have stories ... Taken as a collective, the new emoji look like a jumble of digital plants and animals and household items.

This year's new word is really an emoji entitled: "Face with Tears of Joy." The frequency of its use tripled in 2015. Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep. The Oxford Dictionary people sucked us in ...

“Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders,” he said in a statement. And their choice for the word of the year, he added, embodies ...

The Oxford Dictionary's “Word of the Year” is not even a word, it’s an emoji. Officially called the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji, it was chosen because it “best reflected the ethos ...

it's not even a word. It's an emoji. It seems strange, since if anyone would know what the definition of the word word is, you'd think it would be dictionary editors. Alas, the publishers behind ...

But to confirm my views, I had to go farther. I had to go to the source. Like sushi, emoji as both word and idea was loaned to U.S. English from Japanese. Emoji, in fact, are one of the few ...

Every year, Oxford Dictionaries’ lexicographers chose a word that captures the year’s biggest trends or changes in the English language. The organization knew it wanted to pick an emoji for 2015.

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.