Oxford Dictionary's word of the year is...

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THAT FUCKING CRYING LAUGH EMOJI.

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That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: 😂, officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names. There were other strong contenders from a range of fields, outlined below, but 😂 was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.

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Why was this chosen?

Emojis (the plural can be either emoji or emojis) have been around since the late 1990s, but 2015 saw their use, and use of the word emoji, increase hugely.

This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage statistics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and 😂 was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015. SwiftKey identified that 😂 made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US: a sharp rise from 4% and 9% respectively in 2014. The word emoji has seen a similar surge: although it has been found in English since 1997, usage more than tripled in 2015 over the previous year according to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Corpus.


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Is this a joke?


 
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Nice try, what's the real one?


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Next year it will be a fox emoji


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Sigs fo nigs
But, that's not a word.


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Jacob Potila was actually a Jacob Flotilla of lies.- WarTurkey


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Pretty much sums up the year fam 😂😂😂


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Corgi is best land animal
Darn ghetto memes...


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Ha ha funny joke


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3 different countries have been attacked by ISIS, police killed a shit ton of unarmed people

[emoji23] sums up the year


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The angel agreed to trade a set of white wings for the head of another demon. Overjoyed, the demon killed one of his own and plucked the head right off its still-warm body.

The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
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3 different countries have been attacked by ISIS, police killed a shit ton of unarmed people

[emoji23] sums up the year
😂


 
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😂 was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.
The Baga massacre
Ceasefire during the Ukraine conflict broken 139 times
Ancient Middle Eastern historical sites destroyed by ISIL
ISIL forms an alliance with Boko Haram
148 people killed by Islamic terrorists at Garissa University
Two 7.0+ earthquakes in Nepal causes 9200+ deaths
ISIL claims responsibility for four attacks around Ramadan
An Indonesian Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in a residential area, causing 143 deaths
The Greek government-debt crisis
Bangkok bombing kills 20
A stampede in Mecca kills 2200 people
A suicide bomber kills 100 people at a peace rally in Turkey
Hurricane Patricia, though only killing 8, destroyed several small communities, ruining hundreds of lives
7.5 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region kills over 900
Flight KGL9268 crashes, killing all 221 passengers
Paris endures a series of terrorist attacks, resulting in 129 deaths

oh, but we saw pluto and legalized gay marriage in two countries

yay
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[emoji23] was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.
The Baga massacre
Ceasefire during the Ukraine conflict broken 139 times
Ancient Middle Eastern historical sites destroyed by ISIL
ISIL forms an alliance with Boko Haram
148 people killed by Islamic terrorists at Garissa University
Two 7.0+ earthquakes in Nepal causes 9200+ deaths
ISIL claims responsibility for four attacks around Ramadan
An Indonesian Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in a residential area, causing 143 deaths
The Greek government-debt crisis
Bangkok bombing kills 20
A stampede in Mecca kills 2200 people
A suicide bomber kills 100 people at a peace rally in Turkey
Hurricane Patricia, though only killing 8, destroyed several small communities, ruining hundreds of lives
7.5 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region kills over 900
Flight KGL9268 crashes, killing all 221 passengers
Paris endures a series of terrorist attacks, resulting in 129 deaths

oh, but we saw pluto and legalized gay marriage in two countries

yay
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
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😂 was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.
The Baga massacre
Ceasefire during the Ukraine conflict broken 139 times
Ancient Middle Eastern historical sites destroyed by ISIL
ISIL forms an alliance with Boko Haram
148 people killed by Islamic terrorists at Garissa University
Two 7.0+ earthquakes in Nepal causes 9200+ deaths
ISIL claims responsibility for four attacks around Ramadan
An Indonesian Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in a residential area, causing 143 deaths
The Greek government-debt crisis
Bangkok bombing kills 20
A stampede in Mecca kills 2200 people
A suicide bomber kills 100 people at a peace rally in Turkey
Hurricane Patricia, though only killing 8, destroyed several small communities, ruining hundreds of lives
7.5 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region kills over 900
Flight KGL9268 crashes, killing all 221 passengers
Paris endures a series of terrorist attacks, resulting in 129 deaths

oh, but we saw pluto and legalized gay marriage in two countries

yay
Oh my god, that's actually too fucking hlarious.


 
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well, here's all their WOTYs from the past decade

2014. "Vape." I'm fucking dead serious.
2013. "Selfie." I've never not cringed at this one before.
2012. "GIF," as a verb. Never seen it used as a verb before.
2011. "Squeezed middle," referring to the middle-class squeeze.
2010. "Refudiate." A portmanteau of "refuse" and "repudiate" coined by Mrs. Sarah Palin herself.
2009. "Unfriend."
2008. "Hypermiling." That's when you're driving, and you're trying to be as fuel-efficient as possible.
2007. "Locavore." Someone who only eats local food, I... guess.
2006. "Carbon-neutral." Why? I have no idea.
2005. "Podcast."
2004. "Chav."


 
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Fucking hell, they just don't care about words anymore, that's a desperate attempt at staying relevant.


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well, here's all their WOTYs from the past decade

2014. "Vape." I'm fucking dead serious.
2013. "Selfie." I've never not cringed at this one before.
2012. "GIF," as a verb. Never seen it used as a verb before.
2011. "Squeezed middle," referring to the middle-class squeeze.
2010. "Refudiate." A portmanteau of "refuse" and "repudiate" coined by Mrs. Sarah Palin herself.
2009. "Unfriend."
2008. "Hypermiling." That's when you're driving, and you're trying to be as fuel-efficient as possible.
2007. "Locavore." Someone who only eats local food, I... guess.
2006. "Carbon-neutral." Why? I have no idea.
2005. "Podcast."
2004. "Chav."
Holy shit


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That's the face I made

Except the tears were not of joy.


 
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this should have been the worst emoji of all time, not best of the year.


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hey
👌 This emoji is way better though


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I wouldve thought that the guys at Oxford were smarter than this