Unsupported titles/Colon hyphen right paren

Translingual

Etymology

First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982.[1]

Symbol

:-)

  1. An emoticon representing a smiley face.

Usage notes

  • Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis (")"), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used.

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References

  1. ↑ “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com‎, 2007-09-20, retrieved 2007-09-20
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