Practice using there, their, and they’re correctly as you learn about little pictures that say a lot.
1. Emojis are little pictures that express an emotion or send a message. ______________ like a language for everyone. No matter where you’re from, you can understand this: 😆
2. The world’s first emojis were created in Japan in the late 1990s. ______________ name comes from the Japanese words e (picture) and moji (character). Some early emojis include 
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3. Emojis have been around for about 25 years. But ______________ is a long history to writing with pictures. Ancient Egyptians communicated with drawings called hieroglyphics [hye-ruh-GLIH-fiks].
4. The 😆 emoji is the most frequently used one. But ______________ are a lot of others vying for most popular, like ❤️ , 😍 , and 🙏. Sorry, 💩 , you’re not in the top 10!
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5. In 2015, it became possible to choose among five different skin colors for some emojis. That allows more people to see ______________ own look in an emoji.
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6. Billions of emojis are sent every day. And new ones are released every year. In 2020, a woolly mammoth and a roller skate were added to the collection. We think ______________ supercute!
7. Each emoji can take up to two years to make. Creators send ______________ designs to an organization called Unicode. Anyone can submit an idea, even you!
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8. Not all emojis end up on your phone. An idea for a lasagna emoji was rejected. But you’ll still find a spaghetti emoji ______________ if you want to add some Italian food to your text!
This article was originally published in the September 2021 issue.
