Wits and Cunning?

Quick question, if you see Wits & Cunning as stats, what would you think they represent?

I make this question because as I keep reading Sword & Sorcery books for inspiration, I keep seeing those words being used to describe characters and I find them neat and on genre, I would like to use them for my game as stats.

But they seem to have similar meanings (which would be a problem), and checking their dictionary definition lead me to ones that contradict a bit to what my impression of those words is. English is not my native languague and therefore I may have a different perception.

Well, I also fear how close Cunning is from..., well, you know.