Talk:stupider

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Why is stupidest standard, but not this? --Bran

Stupidity, I guess.--124.182.107.183 05:32, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tea room discussion[edit]

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I don't see how this would be incorrect or what sources proscribe this. Teh Rote 14:48, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Me neither. I removed tag, put in a cite. Let's keep it open for a while for other views. Just found great quote. DCDuring TALK 15:31, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Easy enough to find works weakly favoring "more stupid" over stupid, but relative usage frequency is not very different. DCDuring TALK 15:38, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Connel originally tagged it "nonstandard" (see stupider?diff=1319817), presumably based on a gut feeling; Circeus later downgraded this to "proscribed". Judging from Dictionary.com's entries, AHD and Random House do not share Connel's feeling, but Webster's 1913 did. —RuakhTALK 16:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think it should be tagged (stupider) Robert Ullmann 16:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]