'Face With Tears Of Joy' Emoji Named Word Of The Year

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'Face With Tears Of Joy' Emoji Named Word Of The Year
Oxford Dictionaries has named the 2015 Word of the Year, and the winner isn't really a word. It's an emoji.
 
"Face with tears of joy" emoji was named the 2015 Word of the Year by the dictionary maker, and it's the first time the winner has not actually been a word.
 
In fact, the emoji was "the 'word' that best echoed the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015," the dictionary maker said on its website.
Emojis have been in u
se since the 1990s, but 2015 witnessed the biggest usage of the pictographs so far.
 
"Face with tears of joy" was the most used emoji on the planet, used in 20 percent of texts in England and 17 percent of texts in the United States, a jump from single digits in 2014.
 
 
 
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