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Re: Parents-in-law in the soup

#41913 09/21/01 04:44 AM

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While we're on the subject when did -in-law come to refer your spouse's relatives, anyway? In Jane Austen's time mother-in-law meant stepmother, and brothers- and sisters-in-law were just called brother and sister.

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I can't marry my mother-in-law? TEd Remington 09/24/01 04:44 PM

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Re: Parents-in-law in the soup consuelo 09/20/01 11:26 PM

the importance of family in a culture Sparteye 10/24/01 02:00 PM

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