"The most fresh salmon"

[Drew Danielson]

Would then "most freshest salmon" be allowable for a superlative
quantity of those salmon of superlative freshness?

AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> The rules are simple:
>
> One-syllable adjectives use suffixes -er, -est
> Three- or more syllable adjectives use "more," "most"
> Two-syllable adjectives use either.
>
> So "more simple" and "simpler" are both normal. But "the most fresh salmon"
> would be interpreted by most of us, I think, as 'having more fresh salmon
> than anyone else' rather than 'the freshest salmon'.
>
> - Allan Metcalf

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