Today is a tears-of-joy day for emoji. In a move that reflects the changing nature of communication — and the evolving role of dictionaries — Dictionary.com has officially added explanations for these ...

Human linguistics began with pictograms. At some point, a particularly enterprising Cro-Magnon decided to dip his finger into the ashes of a smoldering fire — ouch! — and wipe it against the cave wall ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

I haven't entirely decided if I'm exaggerating, but I do know one thing: We're in the midst of a revolution, and that revolution is all about communicating with each other without having to say a ...

In a surprising announcement made yesterday, Oxford Dictionaries declared its 2015 Word of the Year isn't a word at all. It's the "Face With Tears of Joy," a move the lexicon guide says symbolizes ...

Fancy snowboarding in a kimono? Want to get over a broken heart with a dirty weekend? Or perhaps you just want to tell someone your day has been, frankly, a big pile of Number Two. If you’re under a ...

Your Scrabble game just got a lot more complicated with the addition of 1,700 new words to the Bible of the English language — the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Included in the latest edition are words ...

Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we’re all just puppets bending to its many whims. Dictionaries aren’t safe from the power of a linguistic whim either, and so maybe that’s why ...

It’s been a big year for our culture. A huge year, one might say. Within the course of less than twelve months, we’ve witnessed history-making steps in the name of civil rights and social progress in ...