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Why is there a quote mark on the word "word" in the title of the article?

Asked by flo (13313points) November 18th, 2015

Should the quote mark be on the word emoji?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/oxford-dictionaries-chooses-emoji-as-its-word-of-the-year/article27293928/
The word “emoji” is a word, so why the need for a quote mark?
Also, yesterday, an interviewer was saying “But an emoji is not a word” to the man from Oxford. She thought the icon was what Oxford was referring to, it seems like. Why did she think so? The man didn’t set her straight either.

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