“As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor, which took centuries to develop. “Unlike natural languages such as English, emoji is almost ...

LONDON -- If someone asked you to name as many emoji as possible, chances are the Eggplant Emoji would be one of the first to spring to mind. It pops up all the time on social media and in jokey ...

Last year we saw both the Pope and Kim Kardashian jump on the emoji bandwagon, and Oxford Dictionaries chose the Tears of Joy emoji as the word of the year. A recent Match.com study also found that ...

And the worst part is it's not even the best emoji (which we all know is the poo emoji). Although the makers of a dictionary deciding that the word of a year is something that isn't even a word is ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has picked an emoji for the 2015 Word of the Year. It is the first pictograph to win the award. Judges said the emoji – which shows a smiley face crying tears of joy – ...

Last week, the Oxford English Dictionaries announced its annual selection for Word of the Year. It was not “fleek,” or “Brexit” or “lumbersexual,” though all three of these were runners-up. The ...

Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we’re all just puppets bending to its many whims. Dictionaries aren’t safe from the power of a linguistic whim either, and so maybe that’s why ...

' Emoji Stats for Bluesky 🦋 ' is a website that compiles the number of times emojis appear across Bluesky and ranks them by language. I thought it would be interesting to see trends in emoji usage by ...

Few people are as pure and good on Twitter dot com as Cher. As in, the woman who taught us all to believe in life after love. That Cher. Her tweets are consistent beacons of spirited joy, unabashed ...

Editor’s note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...