Talk:grandaunt

Out of curiosity, I looked through the hits for "her grand-aunt" in Google Books, and jotted down where and when they were from. Perhaps that will help us decide which dialect this is. That's the first two pages of books. These mostly-old books show that the term was, in the past, used across the English-speaking realm, though it may have always been much rarer than "great aunt". - -sche (discuss) 19:45, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) the USA
 * published in New York, 1881 (a novel? published in a monthly)
 * written in Florida, 1882-6 (in a letter)
 * written by a New Jerseyian, 1894 (or earlier; in a poem by Thomas Dunn English)
 * published in New York, 1907
 * published in the USA, 2007 (transcript of a conversation with a White Mountain Apache speaker, who was the user of the term)
 * 1) England (or an unspecified place in the UK)
 * published in London, 1822 (book on Lady Jane Grey)
 * published in London, 1893 (a novel published in a monthly)
 * published in the UK, 2009
 * 1) Scotland
 * published in Scotland, 1852 (in a weekly)
 * published in Edinburgh & London, 1894 (in a book about Caroline Nairne "by her great grand-niece"!)
 * 1) Ireland
 * Ireland (book published in 2010 on the 1900-1922 Republican women)
 * 1) India
 * India, 1874 (published in 1892; a court transcript, also interesting because it uses Hoa'ble/Hoa’ble)
 * India, 2007 (novel by an Indian author)
 * 1) China
 * 2008 (published in the USA by a Chinese author)
 * 1) the Philippines
 * Philippines, 1983 (transcript of a Philippine Supreme Court session)
 * 1) misc
 * 1863-83 (published in New York, in an article about / translation of French novels)
 * 1894? (an article about / translation of French novels, published in the Edinburgh magazine in New York)
 * 2002 (published by a US/UK/Canadian publisher, a book of Asian women's writings; uses the term in quotation marks)

Next, to get an idea of who currently uses the term, I looked for instances of "his grand-aunt" between 1980 and 2010: That is again the first two pages of results. - -sche (discuss) 20:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) the USA
 * Chicago, IL, 2008 (an edited book on estate planning which also conviniently defines the term: "his grand-aunt (ie, the sister of his grandparent)")
 * Lincoln, NE, 2003 (a book by an author "educated both in Ghana and the United States")
 * USA, 2005 (a book on Japanese women, by an American author)
 * 1) Germany
 * Tübingen, BW, 2009 (a book by a German- and British-educated author)
 * 1) China
 * 2004 (a book by a Chinese author)
 * 1) misc and reprints of pre-1980 works
 * Middlesex, England, 2006 (or is this a reprint of a pre-1980 work?)
 * 1978 (a translation of the Orkneyinga Saga published in the US)
 * 2003 (a book published in Somerville, MA, in the USA by Tibetan? authors)
 * reprint of Jude the Obscure (1894-1895) (similarly, , )
 * reprint of the History of Spiritualism
 * reprint/translation of an 1875 letter by Blavatsky / Блава́тская / Блаватська
 * reprint? of a work on India by Malleson? published in England
 * reprint of a 1914? work on Native American myths
 * reprint of a 1867-1931 work by a British author
 * reprint? of an earlier work on/by George Crabbe
 * reprint
 * (a book of English and Scottish ballads I couldn't find the publication info of)


 * So, the IP was correct to remove the 'US' label. - -sche (discuss) 17:40, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Commonness of various forms
See Talk:grandniece. - -sche (discuss) 17:40, 18 July 2015 (UTC)