You say potato, I say po-tah-to. You say psychologist, I say psychiatrist. It's all the same, right? Wrong. When it comes to semantics, the difference of a few letters can make all the difference. Take the real difference between a pandemic and an epidemic, for example. Or the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner — titles that are sometimes used interchangeably despite the qualifications and responsibilities attached to each differing significantly.

Similarly, if you assumed an anthropologist and an archaeologist were one and the same, you'd be wrong there, too. Though both involve the study of human societies and behaviors, the ways in which they study them are what differentiate the two fields. In fact, according to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) ,

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