Which is Which?

 In the spirit of Halloween maybe today's title should be witch is witch, or maybe not. Most people use the words graveyard and cemetery interchangeably, but they are actually different. Cemetery is the older of the two words first appearing in the mid 1400s and referring to Roman Underground cemeteries or catacombs. Over time the meaning shifted to mean burial grounds closer to the surface, then by 1485 it meant grounds next to a church and by the 1600s it took on the meaning of park like grounds for burial purposes. Graveyards didn't come into use until the mid 1700s and simply meant burial grounds though later on became used in metaphors like, "a graveyard for outdated electronics" or fill in the blank with many other items when they become obsolete.