When do I use “simpler” and “more simple”?

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  1. Indeed. I was taught one uses more for two-syllable words when the emphasis is on the first syllable, like with your examples and with famous and anxious. This rule hasn’t failed me since highschool until it occurred to me that people do say simpler. And airier.

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