I really can't use your one to three system, as it's too limiting -- if you've ever browsed the wwftd dictionary you'd know what I mean (I imagine you'd rate every word therein a 3!) I added doggo sometime in the 90s, and it's one of the more common words in the wwftd list. I suppose, using something like Faldo's decimal system, I'd rate it approx. 2.3017

>I guess I was brought up among the hoi polloi

I guess so; hoi polloi means, literally, 'the many', but the masses commonly add that extra 'the' in..

-tsuwm