Journalists of twitter. If you are having to repeatedly refer to the four bits of the UK in a story, do you say four countries? "Three countries and a province", as per one google suggestion? I have fudged this in the past TBCH, but in this story I can't.
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Thanks Dawn! I have used region when reporting about NI before, but I feel like calling the other three regions is liable to get someone's back up. Administrations does seem to fit!
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Only 17 years of being a journalist, primarily writing about the UK, and still not got this down somehow

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but NI is a province, what is wrong with calling it that?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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"Three countries and a province" - isn't this the most accurate description? or perhaps three nations? The Govt of the Netherlands refers to them as countries https://www.government.nl/topics/brexit/question-and-answer/which-countries-make-up-the-united-kingdom#:~:text=The%20United%20Kingdom%20(UK)%20is,Scotland%2C%20Wales%20and%20Northern%20Ireland ….
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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