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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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