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Last Rites for Vanishing Words

A language is an ecosystem, and words, like species, may be predators or prey, hosts or competitors
By Eric Scigliano
Events like the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling led to a new definition of "identity," so Dictionary.com made the term its word of the year. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year Thankfully Isn’t an Emoji

The site's word of the year is "identity," because the word had taken on new meaning in discussions of gender, sexuality and race.
By John Bonazzo
In a year when an emoji was Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year, it makes sense there were several tech terms on the shortlist. (Photo: Screenshot)

Tech Terms Dominated Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Shortlist

While an emoji was declared the winner, several of the entries on the Word of the Year shortlist also came from the tech world.
By John Bonazzo
This may be how you feel reading about the plural of emoji.

What Is the Plural of Emoji?

By Matthew Kassel
The first selfie ever, by Robert Cornelius, daguerreotype, 1839 (Library of Congress.

How Do You Say “Selfie” in Spanish? You Don’t. Until Now.

By Alexandra Villarreal

GIF Beats Out YOLO to Become the Oxford American Dictionary’s 2012 Word of the Year

By Jessica Roy

Defriend Anyone Who Tells You To Chillax About New Words In The Oxford Dictionary

By Steve Huff
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