cousin in law

0If you are in the American South, you can refer to C vaguely as "distant kin."02br
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00If you are in a Jane Austen novel, you can refer to C as "a distant relation."02br
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00Otherwise, C is an in-law of your cousin, and really nothing to you. Perhaps C is your friend, and you each of a cousin married to each other.0-

0You cousin's spouse's relatives are too distant to really be considered relatives of yours. 0-

0I have seen cousin-by-marriage somewhere and I thought it described the relationship I posted.02br
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00Thanks, GG and Nona.0-

0I would think that is the person married to your cousin (person B), not 01u00their02u00 cousin (person c), which is what you described.02br
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00Or it could be a 'step' relationship - i.e. your aunt remarries a man with children, then I suppose you could call the children your cousin-by-marriage, if you wanted to make the point that there is no blood

0 it could be a 'step' relationship 02br
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00This totally makes sense. Thanks, Nona.0-

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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10If you are in the American South, you can refer to C vaguely as "distant kin."12br
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10If you are in a Jane Austen novel, you can refer to C as "a distant relation."12br
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10Beautiful answer, GG, as usual. I think my father would have

0Oh, I forgot about "shirt-tail cousin"! Yeah, that too.02br
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00I think the kissing cousins thing is that in many states, first cousins can't marry, so if you're a "kissing cousin" you're more distantly related than first cousins. Second or third cousins, perhaps.0-

0 so then would it be wrong to marry C? 0-

0I'm simply saying that in some states, first cousins cannot marry. Your question goes way beyond grammar.0-