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This post is part of AOL Money & Finance’s Best & Worst of 2007. Be sure to cast your vote for the most overused buzzword of the year.

We all have our pet peeves in the evolution of language. Mine is the misuse of “quality” as an adjective, as in — say, “that’s a quality mullet you have there!” Quality is a scale of measurement, people, not a unit of measure.

That being said (which should have made the list), we have a quality set of annoying buzzwords as our candidates for the most overused in 2007.

#1. Take that offline; as in, quit embarrassing yourselves by engaging in an IM flame-war and solve your problems in a face-to-face slap-off. We would prefer that those who use the term “take that offline’”would, um, take it offline.

#2. Globalization. Also flat earth, global integration, global supply chain, etc. We get it that we put on pants made in Thailand, shoes from China, a shirt from India, get in our car made in Romania, and drive to our office to work for a Belgian company selling widgets to Indonesia. No mas, por favor!

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