17 Sept 2024

-lh-

I found myself getting some Portuguese words mixed up the other day: folha, pilha, filho. They all mean completely different things and realising how close they were (from a NLP perspective), I decided to look up some other words that had lh in the middle. I used a JSON file of common Portuguese words and only picked out 5-letter nouns:

• bilha - a jug
• filha - daughter
• filho - son
• milha - a Portuguese mile (not the same as an imperial mile)
• milho - maize
• pilha - battery
• bolha - bubble
• folha - leaf
• folho - a frill or ruffle of fabric
• molho - sauce
• rolha - cork
• solha - flatfish

And now for some silly sentences that nobody would ever say:

Minha bilha do molho milho da filha - My daughter’s corn sauce jug

Minha solha do filho engoliu uma rolha e uma folha - My son’s flatfish swallowed a cork and a leaf

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