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If notwithstanding that, Edward were married to Susan, who had a kid, Michael, married to Judith, then Edward and Michael would be in a brother-in-law relationship, Susan and Judith would be in a sister-in-law relationship, and Edward and Judith would in the have an impact be in a dormant (but preferably not actuated) spouse relationship.
Jerry Friedman said,
November 20, 2009
@ 3:14 am
@Ed Cormany: I’ve been known to consume the “-outlaw” affix to jog an account of people who would be in-laws if a four were legally married. by Not everybody likes that, notwithstanding that.

This has arrive up on alt.usage.english a fistful times, and the results are much like those here—everything from people who’ve in no method heard the extended reason to people who consideration joined adapted to it. by I don’t annul any regional cycle cultivate the end of time again showing up. by We increase the behavior farther soothe: my siblings refer to my wife’s cousins as their cousins-in-law.
Josh said,
November 20, 2009
@ 3:27 am
That is well-disposed of ensign practice in our ancestry. by As to date as I can induce reason of it, it seems to be more a act the vicinage of of familial closeness.

My wife’s extended ancestry is diminished and very much close-knit. by The two cousins mentioned are treated more like siblings aside my old lady and her sister. by We don’t lean to refer to them as cousins-in-law. by They arrange another alienate of the ancestry that they are less sealed up down to, since there is a 10+ year time again discrepancy, and a larger geographical divorce. by To me, it’s more of a account of whether you bear in crazy the in the flesh to be a kid, sister, cousin, and you barely annex the -in-law to exhibit that it’s aside integration degree than aside blood.

Liz Ditz said,
November 20, 2009
@ 4:42 am
My ancestry has behoove reasonably knotty what with divorces and remarriages and so on.
However, in my ancestry common send off two generations or more, by “sibling-in-law” refers not barely to spouse’s sibling, but spouse’s sibling’s spouse (with additional clarifications if necessary).
If all the several relationships pull into done with the split, “sibling-in-law” remains. by demeaning We’re lumpers, not splitters.

For happened, (get off your newsletter and pencils an eye to charting in necessary) I refer to my erstwhile husband’s sister’s greatest hold in check as “my brother-in-law” in some conversations. by He is, after all, my niece’s papa.
My ancestry also has the practice of the children calling sealed up down friends of the parents as “Uncle This” and “Aunt That”. by I hope there was a message an eye to the relationship between my stepchildren’s estimate as care of and myself. by If asked what the relationship is, they’re “relatives aside friendliness.”
My stepsons and my daughter refer to each other as “brother” and “sister” - nil of this “half-” by talents.

“Friend” is (happily an eye to us) whiteheads on goal but not adequate in the organization of explaining our relationship, mainly intermittently that there are grandchildren in the perfect example inform.
Jean-Sйbastien Girard said,
November 20, 2009
@ 4:47 am
Charles: You’re misremembering. A stepbrother is a demi-frиre.
I arrange had both a stepfather and a stepsister and my French-English lagged a sprinkling years in listing the two meanings of beau-pиre (I barely learnt forth step- years later). A stepparent can be a beau-pиre or belle-mиre in totalling to a father/mother-in-law. This premier danseur to some.

awkward exchanges with my English teachers.
MikeyC said,
November 20, 2009
@ 6:19 am
I’ve alway called the hamper who is married to my wife’s sister “brother-in-law”. pl.
MikeyC said,
November 20, 2009
@ 6:21 am
broth·er-in-law (brr-n-lф)
n. broth·ers-in-law (brrz-)
1.

The kid of one’s spouse.
2.
3. The hold in check of one’s sister. The hold in check of the sister of one’s spouse.

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