Oxford Dictionary Names 'Word of the Year 2015' & We're All to Blame

This will probably outrage a lot of people - the 2015 Oxford Dictionary has revealed their Word of the Year is...

AN EMOJI!  

We're not even joking.

Yup, and the emoji to win them all was the 'Face With Tears of Joy' emoji, also casually called the 'crying emoji' or 'happy crying emoji'.

Our sheer laziness is being blamed for this, for all those times we can't be bothered to actually reply to friends' messages or lame jokes with proper words.

What was it up against? Dark Web, on fleek, lumbersexual, and the pronoun “they.” 

So how do they decide what the Word of the Year is?  It's chosen by looking into the evolution of language rather than the past. OD then tracked the Face With Tears of Joy emoji’s usage and research showed that particular emoji was being used WAY more than any others, accounting for 20% of U.K. emoji use and 17% in the U.S.