I'm on the other side of the aisle on this one. I think either you set it in a time when these terms were used or you use current terms. Fiction can be educational, you know! I do a lot of copy editing and I am a voracious reader. I absolutely hate it when people get their facts wrong, use the wrong locations, etc without giving a heads up that the author has used "poetic license." But then, I had a very old school education in Catholic schools when they still had nuns in all - or most - of the classrooms.
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