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[cellio]

Is there a word in English to designate the person who is my husband's brother-in-law? Saying that he is my brother-in-law implies, to me, that either he is my sister's husband or my husband's brother. The person I'm describing is my husband's sister's husband.

I don't need this word often, but the person in question comes up in conversation just often enough to cause me to trip over this too many times.

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[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Considering that Japanese (and Chinese too, I think) has a different word for {older,younger} x {sister, brother} and a different word for aunts and uncles (and their children your cousins) depending on which parent they're blood-related to and whether they're older or younger than that parent, it seems reasonable to assume that they have different words for the weird in-law relationships.

The bizarre part is that all the words are written differently, but all the cousin, aunt, and uncle words are pronounced the same as each other. :)