How to have UK spelling on a US iPad

I have a US iPad, bought about 2 months ago. An ongoing issue for me is the autocorrect, which I use a lot because I am a poor typer, always corrects my Canadian (UK) spelling to US spelling. When I have looked through these forums, others talk about changing the language setting to English (UK) but my iPad does not have that option. It only has English, which seems to be a default to US English. Is there any way to get UK English on an US iPad? This drives me crazy, because even when I ignore spelling suggestions, my 'misspelled' words are still underlined in red.

Others had said this on the discussions I read searching for a solution, but I found that did not work on my iPad. That was actually the first possible solution I tried. I'm not sure why it did not work for me, or why British English did not appear as a language option until after I selected United Kingdom as a region. But its working now. So possible solutions:
1. Select English (UK) as a keyboard; or
2. Select United Kingdom as a region; and
3. Select British English as a language*
*British English was not listed beside English which on my iPad was the first possible language, followed by French. It was listed at the end of the list of possible languages as British English, not English (UK). This made it a less obvious choice.

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