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It would be a good habit to check (for example on the Wiktionary – I have a Chrome search keyword dedicated to that) because those are not the only differences.

fulfill vs. fulfil

judgment vs. judgement

disk vs. disc (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk#Usage_notes)

hiccup vs. hiccough

diarrhea vs. diarrhoea

>judgment vs. judgement

In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.

It's fairly common for us to use "-ise" instead of "-ize", but having now looked at Wikipedia on the subject, it appears that I incorrectly thought of "-ize" as an Americanism. The "-ize" suffix predates "-ise" - it comes from ancient Greek/Latin whereas "-ise" comes from French.

And the “[sic]” is followed by an incorrect attempt to form a conditional. Both problems arise from the same cause.

> my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that.

Why? You were quoting text so it would never be confused for yours anyway.