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Well, actually ceiling fans are useful to distribute heat more evenly in the winter (spinning counter-clockwise) , especially if you have central or radiating heating in your home.
It is EP PT in all places outside of Brazil. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_entities_where_Portuguese_is_an_official_language
Which makes sense since it was the Portuguese going from place to place in the conquering "age of discovery" days (including Brazil). =]
Well, and then there is the Portuguese diaspora that makes up a third of Luxembourg, a significant part of Andorra, and makes Paris the city with the second highest population of Portuguese people (behind Lisboa). There are also significant populations of Portuguese in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Germany, The Netherlands, and in Finland among others.
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ventilator Using ventilator instead of fan is correct.
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Reported wrong pronouncing of the word "útil" -> there's a clear stress on the letter "ú", so it must be pronounced accordingly