As someone with a sizable extended family (something of rarity in the US these days), I often find myself telling people about something that "my cousin's wife/husband" said or did. Well, okay, it's not "often", but it is "frequent enough that it's become an annoyance to not have a more concise term". I could just use "cousin-in-law", but hyphen-induced concision doesn't count. So I set about searching for a word or phrase to describe the relationship, and have come to the surprising conclusion that English doesn't have one.
Many of you, however, speak other languages, or are from different cultures, perhaps more family-oriented ones that might have been in the same situation and have a term. So I follow the traditional route of the English speaker and borrow a word from another tongue. Can any of you help?
Many of you, however, speak other languages, or are from different cultures, perhaps more family-oriented ones that might have been in the same situation and have a term. So I follow the traditional route of the English speaker and borrow a word from another tongue. Can any of you help?