Dwarves talk like they’re from Minnesota. They do
not sound Scottish. (Dwarven food uses a lot of tubers
and mushrooms, so they’ve gotten good at making them
taste different, and they also raise cattle, sheep, and fish.)

There is a group of elves that retreated underground, and discovered weird fungi, huge insects, lots of reptiles, and the occasional weird huge blob thing. They also sound like Australians.

Another group retreated to a mountaintop city, and make amazing wines, They have year round tans, lousy night-vision, and ignore the cold.

Most fiendblood lack the allergy to capsaicin, so
they use a lot of the Red Stuff at taco bars. (Red Stuff is made from a pepper about as spicy as a Carolina Reaper.)

There is an elven term that gets used, zherla. It is the umbrella term for people who do not fit the gender binary: the transgender, genderfluid, and agender. While the original term is from the elven language, it’s become part of regular language.

there is no equivalent term for sexual preferences. for both things, most people don’t care. those that do either follow the Tyrant (one of the dark saints who would think Project 2025 doesn’t go far enough) or fall into the general category of “asshole”. the only reason for the use of zherla is recognizing people’s presentation.

Gnomes are usually zherla, and pretty gender-agnostic most of the time anyway. They really only care about gender-related things when it comes to "are we going to have kids?" Since gnomes also tend to do families in polycules, you tend to get the half-dozen or so sitting down and working out who does what.