Can You Sove This?

[Stargazer]

During the week a question on The Chase (ITV) puzzled me. How can the word BUFFALO be used eight times in a grammatically correct sentence using no other words?

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

[mallyh]

if you google it will tell you

[Mamyalynne]

Some good examples of similar here too...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences

[Mamyalynne]

The Chase and other programmes rely heavily on old research.

[goodgoalie]

No, but here are 11 'hads' in a row:
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

James, while John had had 'had', had had 'had had', 'had had' had had a better effect on the teacher

[goodgoalie]

http://mentalfloss.com/article/18209/buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo

[davegosling]

Master signwriter to his young apprentice, complaining about the word spacing on the pub sign: "The space between 'Coach' and 'and' and 'and' and 'Horses' is too small."

[Georgiesmum]

Yes, and when I was 10, our teacher gave us this sentence that we had to put the punctuation marks in to make it make sense.
fish and and and and and chips.

[Stargazer]

I am still trying to make sense of the sentence comprising eight consecutive words "BUFFALO" despite going to the links suggested. I seem to have a brain block!

[Mamyalynne]

If you read the 'Construction' part of the Wiki link - it explains the various uses of 'Buffalo'.

It's obscure as some are very outdated and you'd never actually use the sentence but is fun playing with words.