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Scouse is language of the internet

Mar 28 2003

By Emma Gunby Echo Reporter, Liverpool Echo

TELL yer Ma 'bout dis new website thingy. A new website has been set up to translate the Queen's English into perfect Scouse. The site, www.whoohoo.co.uk, also offers translations into Cockney rhyming slang, Irish, Brummie and Geordie and even into the language of Staines-massive comic Ali G. It will also let you translate your words into Posh. whoohoo first opened in 1999, giving internet surfers the chance to translate anything into their favourite accent. The beauty of the website is that you can add your own words if you think the translator has got them wrong. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT And it can now translate emails to completely baffle your friends. The site claims to have the largest Scouse database on the net. A spokesman for the company said: "whoohoo has been created to provide quality entertainment for everybody on the internet. "Currently the site is quite small, but we will be adding more features in the coming months. "Future translations you can look forward to include the Aussie translator and, hopefully, a text translator later in the year." The website is the brainchild of 17-year-old Chris Kelly, from St Albans, in Hertfordshire, who set up the site while he was still at school.

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