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I'm probably gonna get the hell beat out of me by the descriptivists, but here's the rule on that:
If the adjective ends in y and is two syllables long you can drop the y and use er and est. Otherwise you use more and most in front of the adjective.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/regcom.htm
Sure, you could use securer or securest, just like you could use pleasurabler and pleasurablest instead of more and most pleasurable.
But you'd be incorrect.
TEd
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