The word "uncle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun for a family member related to one of your parents. For example, "My uncle took me to the beach last weekend."
But during the Games I got the terrible news that my uncle had died, probably from Ebola.
His father is Mr Justice Tugendhat, a high court judge, and his uncle is a Conservative peer, Baron Christopher Tugendhat.
Luna's uncle, Ruben Nunez, said that she returned in good condition and that the family is sure to seek some kind of legal damages.
The Secrets of Vesuvius (The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence Young history buffs will realise they're in for an exciting explosion when Flavia and her Roman Mysteries crew visit her uncle in Pompeii... in AD79.
Bush speaks fluent Spanish and comes from a family — particularly his father and uncle — that has successfully built inroads to Latino voters.
He then went to the hospital, found Eddie was in intensive care, and called at 1am to tell Janet, who came over to Sheffield with Adam's uncle Robert and waited at Eddie's bedside.
My mum and my uncle were involved in amateur dramatics.
The story told is of an aunt and uncle who care for their niece and refuse to send her to school with their sons.
In one episode from the show's later years, viewers learned that La Cuatro is expecting an inheritance from an uncle in Africa, which is eventually delivered by an "African" character sporting a cheetah-print cloth and disheveled hair held together by a large bone.
He is particularly anxious to make plain that Willy Loman – the flawed and defeated patriarch – in Death of a Salesman is not based on his father, though "one of the other characters has some similarities with an uncle".
Prior to our current princes, the most successful recent combatant was their uncle Prince Andrew, who served with distinction as a Sea King pilot during the 1982 Falklands war.
