Was the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year in 2015

The mysterious authors of the most well-known dictionaries in the world are perhaps the ones who are praised the most as being experts on language and the written word. A "dictionary person," whether it is Funk and Wagnall or the staff at Oxford, is presumably someone who knows their business, at least as far as words go. Therefore, when an emoji was named the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year back in 2015, it was a major victory for emojis.

Depending on your perspective, the "weeping and laughing" emoji or "face with tears of pleasure" was picked to represent the world in 2015. It accounted for 20% of all emoji usage that year, making it by far the winner by a wide margin. The emoji that came in second only received 9% of all usage.

"Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders," according to the president of Oxford Dictionaries, was cited as saying. Whether or not you use them frequently, they have gained support from the dictionary community and gained linguistic legitimacy.