I'll be honest and admit that I hadn't even thought about person/people when I was doing this. There were SO. MANY. options to work with, and I really didn't want to make this thing any more unwieldy than it already feels to me. *g*

As for sistern, the only times I've seen that one used is in relation to nuns/religious-type settings, or someone trying to get an "old timey" feel.