If you use Electrum wallet software with newest version, you will not have this problem.
Nothing has changed in the last versions. Even the lastest version of electrum (4.5.8) suggests words from both BIP39 and old electum wordlists.
Electrum 3.1.3 and all later versions suggests words from both wordlist.
Electrum 3.1.2 and all previous versions don't suggest words at all.