9 Business Words We Heard Too Often in 2013

Put them together, and you've got your standard company email sent this year. Business ETC has teamed up with the Global Language Monitor to determine the "most overused" business words of the year, based on GLM's analysis of the words used in an overwhelming number of places, including social media, blogs, and 275,000 print and online media sources. Shocker: plenty have to do with the Internet.

1. Content
2. Social media
3. Sustainability
4. Transparency
5. Literally

6. Guru
7. Utilize
8. Robust
9. Ping

Click for the full list, which includes this one (fill in the blank): "Why don't we talk about this X?" (More Global Language Monitor stories.)