a question of vocabulary

[ritaxis]

What's the difference between a cantonment and an encampment?

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I am not looking up the technical difference; probably someone else knows it off the bat and will tell you. My back of the head belief as a reader is that a cantonment is more permanent than an encampment. If I think about it more, my impressions of the words are infected by the Swiss political canton and the song "Tenting on the Old Campground," and at that point I am no longer a useful source of data.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

And also there is a town in Florida called "Cantonment."