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Paultx Posted 17 years ago
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Wuthering Heights–What's "Wuthering"?

Here in Brazil "Wuthering Heights" was translated and gained a title that is something like "The mound of the howling winds". And I must confess I haven't read it-yet-neither in English nor in Brazilian Portuguese. So at first confused by all that, I couldn't find "wuther" as a verb, and until now I don't know what "Wuthering" exactly means.
  

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This one is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights:

The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather).
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Hello Paultx

I am interested in buying my Brazilian friend a copy of Wuthering Heights, and I came across your post about 'Wuthering' in the process. I have read the book, and I just thought it was the name of the place where they all lived, but yes does have onomatopaec connotations, and does strangely sound like a place where the wind blows strongly.

Anyway, I'm sure my ablve
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AnonymousHello Paultx

I am interested in buying my Brazilian friend a copy of Wuthering Heights.

Can you recommend anywhere I can get Wuthering Heights in Brazilian Portuguese? I can only find the 'websters edition' in English with a Protuguese thesaurus, but it's reall expensive for a book!!


You can purchase "O Morro dos Ven
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PaultxI couldn't find "wuther" as a verb, and until now I don't know what "Wuthering" exactly means.
Stand on a cliff over the ocean on a windy day. Listen to the sound patterns that the turbulent air makes in your ears as the violent wind whips against them. What you are hearing is "wuthering".

(The cliff and the ocean are not absolutely necessary!
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That was the first "adult" book I read as a child. I've always loved the wind, and associated it with elevated terrain (Once, on a high and windy hill - in the morning mist, two lovers kissed and the world stood still??) As I recall, the secret place where Catherine and Heathcliff went as children to be alone, was even higher, in the woods above the great mansion. In my mind, I'm alw
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