Talk:Regional Municipality of Niagara
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[edit] move to Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario
If anyone's interested, please comment on the message I left at Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion#Mass-move of Ontario Regional Municipality pages. Thanks. --Qviri 06:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] what goes here? what goes in Niagara Peninsula?
Hey,
if anyone has any ideas as to what kind of material would go in this article and what should be in Niagara Peninsula instead, you're more than welcome to share them.
The Peninsula article already has some history in it. I think it is well-suited there, but I don't believe this article should be just a cold demographics article... After all, Regional Niagara is a very much living organism. --Qviri 01:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps some regional words or slang could be included here. I'm from Grimsby originally, but live in Vancouver now, and can routinely pick out people from "The Reg" (reej) by their speech. Some words and terms I've discovered which seem to be common only to the Niagara Region are "the Mountain" referring to the escarpment, "Half-Quarter" referring to one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana, "The Two-Four" referring to Victoria Day (though this seems to have spread to the rest of Southern Ontario), as well as changing 's' to 'sh' in some words (Nice! and Sweet! are two that come to mind). I never realized it when I was there, but there is a definite accent to many people from The Niagara Region.
- The Mountain is more of a Hamilton thing, really. Might have spread to Grimsby, but I don't think it's popular in St. Catharines. May two-four is pretty universal in Ontario these days. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.109.173.23 (talk) 22:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC).
