Back in 1990, the internet was young, and print still ruled, as it had since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. It followed then that the American Dialect Society, introducing the notion of a Word of the ...

I have only recently started using emojis, and I often choose the wrong ones -- the other day, for instance, I meant to send an “astonished” face (😲) and instead sent an “embarrassed” face (😳).