# Buffalo

"Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English, often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word Buffalo: as an adjectival proper noun to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, the city of Buffalo, New York, being the most notable; as a verb to Buffalo, meaning (in American English) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and as a noun to refer to the animal, Buffalo (often called bison outside of North America).