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I remarked to my mother-in-law that I was opting for a simple breakfast today, using the English word "simple" but with a Japanese accent, resulting in something like sin-puru.

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  1. adjective Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part. See Synonyms at pure.
  2. adjective Not involved or complicated; easy: a simple task. See Synonyms at easy.
  3. adjective Being without additions or modifications; mere: a simple "yes” or "no.”
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin simplus; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots and from simplex; see simplex.

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  1. Early modern English also symple; Scots semple, from ME, simple, symple, sympill, sympylle (=D. Middle Low German G. Swedish Danish simpel), from Old French simple, French simple =Provencal simple, semple =Spanish simple =Portuguese simples =Italian semplice, from Latin simplex (simplic-), simple, literally ‘onefold,’ as opposed to duplex, twofold, double, from sim-, the same (which appears also in sin-guli, one by one, sem-per, always, alike, sem-el, once, sim-ul, together), + plicare, fold: see same and ply. Cf. single, singular, simultaneous, etc., from the same ult. root. Hence ult. simplicity, simplify.
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