re /InLaws/

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 183980

 
> 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.
> :-)
>

Potioncat:
You know, Kneasy used to say a post often revealed more about the 
poster than it did about HP...  ;-)

US-English uses the same in-law connections. Although sometimes when a 
speaker is trying to completely identify the relationship, he may add 
an -in-law to the word (cousin-in-law). More often it's cousin by 
marriage.

You know, I can't think of a good reason for getting that specific in a 
conversation. Well, maybe if someone said, "Isn't Voldmort  your 
cousin?" and you wanted to distance yourself from the relationship.