It's a common mistake, but if www.internment.net is about burials, they have used the wrong word. intern is a verb, and means "to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country." internment is a noun and is "the act or an instance of interning, or the state of being interned; confinement." inter is a verb, and means "to deposit a dead body in a grave or tomb; bury." interment is a noun that means "the act or a ceremony of interring; burial." (Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary) The two words are not interchangeable and do not mean the same thing. Even funeral parlor employees make the same mistake when they send obituaries to our local newspaper. I hope those of us involved in genealogy will be alert to this and make the effort to be helpful to those who use these words incorrectly and point them toward correct usage. It's unfortunate that this mistake has been made in a Web site address as I'm afraid search engines are going to direct people who are looking for burials to sites about prisoners of war. Carole O. Cole

The website is at www.interment.net. I guess they thought some would misspell, so www.internment.net works too. Laura -----Original Message----- From: Carole O. Cole [mailto:cnjcarole@msn.com] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 11:30 AM To: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Internment is not interment It's a common mistake, but if www.internment.net is about burials, they have used the wrong word. intern is a verb, and means "to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country." internment is a noun and is "the act or an instance of interning, or the state of being interned; confinement." inter is a verb, and means "to deposit a dead body in a grave or tomb; bury." interment is a noun that means "the act or a ceremony of interring; burial." (Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary) The two words are not interchangeable and do not mean the same thing. Even funeral parlor employees make the same mistake when they send obituaries to our local newspaper. I hope those of us involved in genealogy will be alert to this and make the effort to be helpful to those who use these words incorrectly and point them toward correct usage. It's unfortunate that this mistake has been made in a Web site address as I'm afraid search engines are going to direct people who are looking for burials to sites about prisoners of war. Carole O. Cole ______________________________