You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

Folks from Finland use emoji characters in more than 60 percent of Instagram text—be it captions or comments. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you ...

Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the sentence. But how does that work? Do we interpret an emoji primarily as an image or as a word? To find out, a research team ...

Oxford Dictionaries, in partnership with SwiftKey, recently announced that the single term that bested all the million others available in the English language this year is the “face with tears of joy ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...

Perhaps you remember when you saw your first smartphone and felt a tingle of amazement. It could access the world's libraries, play movies and music, text friends, take pictures — oh, and make phone ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO — Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 ...

Hundreds of words that were previously off-limits to Scrabble players are now fair game. The newest version of Merriam-Webster’s The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary boasts 300 new words, ...