What's the difference between 'artifact' and 'artefact'?

Question

What's the difference between 'artifact' and 'artefact'?

Answer 1

Its those Brits trying to change our language.  like with colour and behaviour and organise.  And yes, it is the Brits changing the language.  There was a conscious effort to change English, a Germanic language, to more closely resemble romance languages like French.  That is the reason for the differences, we, Americans, spell and speak more like Shakespeare would have than do modern Brits.

Answer 2

Artefact is the British spelling

Artifact is the American spelling

Answer 3

One entry found for artefact.



Main Entry: ar·te·fact

chiefly British variant of ARTIFACT