After an emoji and a phrase by others, online dictionary Merriam-Webster have nominated a suffix as their word of the year. They base this on the number of searches for various words in their online dictionary, a substantial number of which share the suffix ‘ism’. sigh.
I find myself bemused again as a ‘word’ (phrase) I can barely remember reading before is selected as a word of the year. This time it’s ‘sharing economy’, the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s 2015 Word of the Year. I had heard of three of the other five, which comprised: three phrases, one portmanteau, and an …
So, given that the word of the year is an emoji, what might that mean for keyboards? You may be sorry you asked. ‘finally, a keyboard that speaks your language’ https://youtu.be/Hvm3B6kXPK0
It’s pretty much all over the internet that the Oxford Dictionary have selected the emoji (a pictograph – picture image used in text messaging) “Face with Tears of Joy” as their word of the year for 2015. There must be an irony in the choice that I’m missing, and real words pretty much are failing …
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