I'm a young Fogarty, and I have a special treat this week.

I often talk about the new words that dictionaries add, but recently Dictionary.com decided to

add the definitions for emoji to their site, after seeing that people were searching to

find out what different emoji mean, that people are searching for things like tears of joy

emoji meaning. And instead of me telling you about it, I have the lexicographer from Dictionary.com,

Jane Solomon, to tell you about it in her own words. And at the end, I have a quick

and dirty tip about the word awe. But first, I have a couple of odds and ends to catch up on

from the last few weeks. Eric Decker's, a humor writer and occasional grammar girl contributor,

told me that there has been an update about the Deminim Hoosiers. Last week, I said that the

United States government publishing office calls people of Indiana Indians. But that the state of

Indiana says the official name for residence is Hoosiers. But Eric, a proud Hoosier, said that in

January of 2017, two Indiana senators asked the publishing office to designate that people from

Indiana should be called Hoosiers. And the US government publishing office agreed to do it.

So now they are Hoosiers everywhere. I'm sorry for the error, and that's really another example

of how Deminim's are tricky because they can change. Etymology online says the origin of the name

Hoosier is unknown. There are some made up stories that don't seem especially credible, but we do know

that the name was first used in print in the 1830s. And it seems to have originated among Ohio

River Boatman, maybe from a word that described anything unusually large. And a few weeks ago,

I talked about new words that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary. And as I was talking

about how words get in the dictionary, I mentioned the campaign by a Canadian boy named Levi Bud

to get the word levodrome into use so it can get into the dictionary. He made up the name to

describe a series of letters that spell one word forward and a different word backward,

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