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Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Aug 4 06:30:30 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 183979

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> 
wrote:
 
Geoff:
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183933>:
> 
> << Anyway, in the UK, the suffix "in-law" is only used in conjunction
> with "sister' "brother', "son" or "daughter".  >>

Catlady: 
> No mother-in-law jokes?

Geoff:
Whoops....

Please add "father" and "mother" to the list. I was trying to make the 
point that such peculiarities as "grandmother-in-law" or "aunt-in-law" 
just don't exist, at least in UK English .

That was the mother of all omissions that I made.
:-)





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