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Whenever I introduce Loper Bright in class, I stumble and struggle to find a gender-neutral alternative to "fishermen." Students will attest I invariably end on "fisherpeople" to many giggles. One quarter it was "the boat people." Today, fisherthon is born.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.