Practitioners of modern hieroglyphics, rejoice! Our collective emoji vocabulary has expanded yet again, with yesterday’s announcement from Emojipedia outlining 117 new little images that we can use to ...

As autumn grows colder and fallen leaves crunch beneath our thick-soled boots, we, as People Of The Internet, annually await, or bemoan, year-end lists and superlatives. While more patient humans may ...

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 laughing ...

Human linguistics began with pictograms. At some point, a particularly enterprising Cro-Magnon decided to dip his finger into the ashes of a smoldering fire — ouch! — and wipe it against the cave wall ...

CHICAGO -- The dictionary got a little bigger Tuesday when Merriam-Webster announced it added 1,700 new word entries and expanded 700 entries to include new senses. "Some of the new entries are for ...

Bad news for journalists and those with any respect for the written word: “Emoji” has officially made its way into the Oxford Dictionary. It was hailed the “OD word of the year,” following “vape” ...

It’s been a big year for our culture. A huge year, one might say. Within the course of less than twelve months, we’ve witnessed history-making steps in the name of civil rights and social progress in ...

Emojis are truly a language all their own, and Dictionary.com is recognizing this by adding emojis to their site—becoming the first major reference to do so, as Time reports. As we all know, emojis ...

Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year isn’t quite a word and it doesn’t technically have an official name, but we’ve all used it recently. The “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji is the 2015 word of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The dictionary got a little bigger Tuesday when Merriam-Webster announced it added 1,700 new word entries and expanded 700 entries to include new senses. "Some of the new entries are ...