Reply #150: Your educator was the stupidest person if he rapped your knuckles for [View All]

[Czolgosz]

using the word stupidest.

Some prefer to amplify multisyllabic adjectives with "more" and "most" instead of the suffixes "-er" and "-est" simply because the words with those suffixes are more difficult to pronounce in some circumstances (e.g., when describing a stone that is a more intense shade of amber it is easier to say "more amber" than "amberer" while describing a stone that is superlative in its turquoise coloring it is easier to say "most turquoise" that "turquoisest"), but this is not a rule of English grammar.

Also, the prohibition against ending sentences with a preposition is not a rule of English grammar (it is a rule of Latin grammar). That's a phony rule we should do away with.