Thread:Fearless Diva/@comment-3452092-20181218032940/@comment-3452092-20190313023352

Who knows, maybe mermaids outnumber mermen five to one or something and so they are collectively known as merpeople, but most of the time people just fall into the more common term for the tuneless of mermaids, because there just are more of them. Yes, totally reaching, but you never know. I think either term is fine, but whichever you pick mention the other. So if you use "mermaids", say Beckett used the term "merpeople" once, but generally stuck with "mermaids" or if you use "merpeople" say, the term was only used once in the book, generally exchanged for "mermaids". Or something like that.