The Oxford dictionary called Emoji the word of the year "Face with tears of joy"

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The official blog of the Oxford Dictionary announced that the word of 2015 was ... not a word, but emoji, officially known as " Face With Tears of Joy ". The authors of the dictionary claim that it is this symbol that best describes the habits, moods and concerns of people in the past year, despite the fact that he had strong rivals.

Emoji use statistics “Person with Tears of Joy” was obtained thanks to the collaboration with SwiftKey, a company producing a mobile application for predictive input. It turned out that in the UK 20% more popular than other Emoji, and in the US, this figure is only slightly lower - 17%. In general, the use of this symbol increased from 4% in 2014 to 9% in 2015.
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The remaining winning words in general reflect the problems of modern society, especially those related to instability in the Middle East and the Internet.

• Brexit - indicates the possibility of a British exit from the European Union. The word is formed as a combination of Britain and exit .
• refugee - refugee.
• ad blocker - ad blocking software on the Internet.
• Dark Web - a segment of the Internet that allows you to maintain anonymity, probably means a concept known as the " Deep Web ".
• on fleek is a phrasal adjective meaning something very good or stylish.
• lumbersexual - lambersexual , a man adhering to a deliberately masculine style of clothing, distinguished by simplicity: flannel plaid shirts, T-shirts, knitted sweaters, fur hats. Mandatory attribute lambersexual is a beard
• The sharing economy - the “economy of value” - a system of mutual economic benefits from the use of a resource by groups of people. Such an economy is operated by services like AirBnb or Uber.
• they are a pronoun used to refer to people of undefined sex.

Last year, the word " year " became the word of the year, which refers to the process of smoking an electronic cigarette, and a year earlier, the already widely known selfie .