All the news that's fit to letter

It's back. The Chaz Brenchley Newsletter, rising like something dreadful from the grave bright and shiny on a brand new morning.

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This can't end well, can it?

Haven't these people seen Terminator? Or The Matrix? Or...?

Damn

Why, 'zackly, has this book not been writing itself? I've been sitting here for hours, damn it, noodling on the internets; and every time I check back, there aren't more words inserted...

Grr.

Also, I have just hacked my thumb open. Again. What a good thing I have neosporin. (But if you apply neosporin and the thumb continues to bleed, does this not just wash out the good stuff? Ought one to wait till the bleeding stops? 'Cos that might be days...)

The word for intern is internee

According to the 1930 very-English dictionary I have been using for this exact purpose, the noun derived from the verb "to intern" at that time was - "intern". Which of course means something else (particularly to Americans, but increasingly also to us Brits) these days, when we would use "internee" for someone who had been interned.

So, of course, the dilemma. If the OED backs up this historical meaning and confirms that "internee" came later, post-WW2 - do I use the correct-for-the-time word which everyone will misunderstand, or do I use the correct-for-now word which is anachronistic but clear in meaning?