This week Oxford Dictionaries announced a rather unusual word of the year: Officially called ‘Face with Tears of Joy’, this emoji was chosen as the word that ‘best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015’. The word emoji has been used since the early nineties and is a portmanteau of ‘e’ (as in ‘electronic’ like in ‘email’) and ‘moji’ (Japanese for ‘letter’ or ‘character’). Another word for such pictographs is ‘emoticon’ which is a portmanteau of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’. You can read about other portmanteau words here. What’s your favour...
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