(Image source: Oxford Dictionaries)
Oxford Dictionaries has signaled its commitment to the destruction of the English language by announcing its 2015 Word of the Year is not, in fact, a word. It’s an emoji.
The OxfordWords blog revealed the “pictograph” “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji has won the 2015 Word of the Year title.
According to Oxford Dictionaries, “There were other strong contenders from a range of fields, outlined below, but 
was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.”
Coincidentally, the face can also be used to express laughing to keep from crying at the decline of Western civilization.
The emoji beat out words such as, “they,” “refugee,” “Brexit,” and “on fleek.”
Oxford Dictionaries—thankfully—is different from its Oxford English Dictionary counterpart. While the Oxford English Dictionary is the standard bearer of the English language that focuses on the historical use of words, Oxford Dictionaries focuses on more cool, hip, modern language (or whatever the kids are using these days).
This move comes after Oxford Dictionaries added words such as, “microaggression,” “fat-shame,” “manspreading,” and the gender-neutral pronoun “Mx” to its collection.