WOTY’15: La palabra del año es…

Hello dear friends!

Hola, ¿recordáis que cada año os presentamos la palabra del año en inglés elegida por el diccionario Oxford? Si la del año pasado fue “vape”, la de este año os va a dejar boquiabiertos, ya que ni siquiera es una palabra. Lee el texto en inglés, consulta el vocabulario y descubre cuál es la WOTY (Word Of The Year) de 2015:

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Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…

That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year is a pictograph: the also called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names.

There were other strong contenders from a range of fields, but the emoji was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.

Emojis (the plural can be either emoji or emojis) have been around since the late 1990s, but 2015 saw their use, and use of the word emoji, increase hugely.

This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage statistics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and the emoji was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015.

SwiftKey identified that the emoji made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US: a sharp rise from 4% and 9% respectively in 2014.

The word emoji has seen a similar surge: although it has been found in English since 1997, usage more than tripled in 2015 over the previous year according to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Corpus.

Vocabulario

that’s right: así es, en efecto.

pictograph: pictografía, icono

though: aunque

contender: aspirante, contendiente

ethos: etos, valores

mood: humor, estado de ánimo

to partner: asociarse

to make up: formar

sharp: súbito, brusco

surge: aumento repentino

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