# How do you call your sister-in-law's husband? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Tags:** mxt, international\ **Created:** [August 28, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298 "2010-08-28T18:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edaguru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@edaguru](https://community.cartalk.com/u/edaguru)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/1 "2010-08-28T18:43:58Z")
Heard Tom and Ray pondering this one. Well, we have a term for it in India - “co-brother” ---
**Author:** ![ZombieWoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@ZombieWoof](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ZombieWoof)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/2 "2010-08-28T20:50:48Z")
Brother-in-law once removed? The guy who tricked my sister-in-law? “What the heck was she thinking?” ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/3 "2010-08-29T01:29:45Z")
How do I call him? Most of the time, I just use the telephone. ;-)) ---
**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/4 "2010-08-29T01:34:21Z")
I’m a country boy - I yodel. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/5 "2010-08-29T01:54:44Z")
If she’s your sister in law, wouldn’t her husband be your brother? ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/6 "2010-08-29T09:38:57Z")
Sounds like that old song “I’m my own grandpa” by Lonzo & Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![CamaroBeau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/camarobeau/32/1940_2.png) [@CamaroBeau](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CamaroBeau)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/7 "2010-08-29T09:42:48Z")
I will call him by his name… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MG-McAnick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mg-mcanick/32/188_2.png) [@MG-McAnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MG-McAnick)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/8 "2010-08-29T18:48:41Z")
Not if she’s your wife’s sister. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/9 "2010-08-30T23:28:08Z")
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw&feature=artist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw&feature=artist) (Ray Stevens remix) ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/10 "2010-09-01T23:58:54Z")
On a private cell phone that she has no knowledge of? ---
**Author:** ![MG-McAnick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mg-mcanick/32/188_2.png) [@MG-McAnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MG-McAnick)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/11 "2010-09-02T04:11:53Z")
That’s only if you’re female… ---
**Author:** ![irlandes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@irlandes](https://community.cartalk.com/u/irlandes)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-do-you-call-your-sister-in-laws-husband/54298/12 "2010-09-03T23:56:47Z")
We don’t really have such a word in English. I think in Mexican Spanish, they do, though it is confusing. Concu?o. Not sure if we need one in English. We don’t even have a word for second person plural except You-all (y’all).