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By placing ご (go) or お (o) in front of a noun, you can make it more formal (Go in the case that word is using "On" reading and o in the case of "Kun" reading). So in the case of cousin, いとこ (itoko) is Kun reading so it becomes おいとこ (oitoko).

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