Last week, the Oxford English Dictionaries announced its annual selection for Word of the Year. It was not “fleek,” or “Brexit” or “lumbersexual,” though all three of these were runners-up. The ...

The number of Brits turning to colourful symbols over text to communicate has risen, with 62 per cent claiming to use emoji more than they did a year ago. A further 80 per cent say they use them ...

Emoji is the fastest-growing language in history - and it is ruining young people's English skills, research by YouTube has revealed. Nearly everyone the video sharing website asked said they believed ...

A couple of months ago, NPR reporter Lulu Miller tweeted a question. She knew a 5-year-old who was texting exclusively in emoji, and wondered if were there any studies about kids, too young to read, ...

LONDON -- If someone asked you to name as many emoji as possible, chances are the Eggplant Emoji would be one of the first to spring to mind. It pops up all the time on social media and in jokey ...

Editor’s Note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...

Vyvyan Evans consults to TalkTalk Mobile. Each year, Oxford Dictionaries – one of the world’s leading arbiters on the English language – selects a word that has risen to prominence over the past 12 ...

Lauren Gawne is a co-creator of Lingthusiasm. This research was funded in part by the Lingthusiasm Patreon. We’re much more likely to be hanging out on social media than at the watercooler these days.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This afternoon, a reader emailed to say that he believed I was muddling ...

Editor’s note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...