Eurelia, South Australia

Eurelia, South Australia

Eurelia (coord|32|33|S|138|33|E [ [http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=175691 Eurelia page] at Geoscience Australia] ) is a small town in South Australia.

The pronunciation of the town's name gives rise to some long standing jokes. One joke [Tom Burton, "Words in Your Ear", Wakefield Press, 1999, ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 101, relating a joke told to him by Alan Brissenden] has two railway porters at each end of the platform and as each train pulls in one would call out "You're a liar! You're a liar", and the other would reply "You really are! You really are!". (Ie. the town's name sounds like either "you're a liar" or "you really are" depending on which syllable the stress falls.)

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