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You won't believe which words Merriam-Webster added to dictionary

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Markster said:
I, too, lament the loss of 'emoticon'.
Though, I tend to think of emoticons as text based representations of images, while emoji are substituted images.
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No you are right. Emojo and Emoticons are very different things. Did they remove emoticon or something?

Emoticon: :-D
Emoji: 😀
 
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