Rose if you ever visit AWAD Hope you find any of the following posts interesting or useful as many of the guys on this board are gifted in the use of our Mater Jetty

For the interested AWAD participant the following link summarizes my principal thoughts concerning the three Types

http://accentuatewritersforum.com/files/viewthread.php?tid=9853#pid125105

To assuage concerns of the angry and determined AWAD prescriptivist, however, I readily concede that many words fall betwixt. For instance "contumelious" is clearly of Type 3 whereas "cudgel" rates only Type 2.7704

Some of these are personal judgment calls. For example, I wouldn't rate cudgel much higher than, say, 1.384.

Well then 1.982 but not 0.0856 lower

>"contumelious" is clearly of Type 3

oh, I don't think so; contumacious, perhaps.

Well as Fal says it's often a matter of individual experience. However I find it very hard to believe these three terms are used freely in everyday conversation and I doubt likely to be understood by nearly everyone. I suspect you two guys run with an elite group

...but I'd like your rating for today's word. In spite of a BSJ from the U of I, several decades as a tech writer, and a few dozen minor successes in authorship myself I'd place "doggo" as type 3; I guess I was brought up among the hoi polloi

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

the masses commonly add that extra 'the' in

Favorite bit of dialog from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:

"The Miles Gloriosus?"
"The the himself!"

Forgive me tsu but for the life of me I can't find a link to that dictionary

That I used "the" confirms I'm indeed one of them as you suggest

As to "doggo" at "approx. 2.3017" In spite of my credentials (above) I still can't agree that most of hoi polloi would know it. I would take a vote--in separate thread--to learn how many participants understood "doggo" before today--if I knew how--so if someone would kindly do so I would be much obliged

Note however I omitted the "the" this time

Guys don't be reluctant to admit you didn't know "doggo": I didn't

I think that what my rating of 2.3017 suggests is that one out of every 1.73837462 AWADtalk readers should know this term; that's 57.525%.

oh, google wwftd; it'll be the first hit.

Thanks for that link. Glancing only at the first page of "a's" I surely would as you say consider most all Type-3