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Hindi has a solution to this. You just append ji to anything to make it an honorific. As in Aliceji, Bobji, Venkatji. You need the name though. You can even attach it to other honorifics and relations: Auntyji, Sirji, Madamji though that doesn’t help here.
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I can tell they’ve had pronoun training at my hospital because the check in guy said “Sir, over here. Oh! No, uh, they?” And the lady at the next cube said, “No gendered honorifics or antiquated respectability phrases, KEVIN!!!!”
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A few years ago I was compère for an event and wanted a gender neutral equivalent of "ladies and gentlemen" that still sounded formal and slightly quaint/old fashioned. I went with "beloved friends and honoured guests", which seemed to do the trick nicely.
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