Silly plurals...!
06-18-2010, 06:43 AM
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Being from just outside Buffalo NY all my life, you'd think that I would be rock solidly sure of how to form the plural of the word "buffalo".
But, wanting to be sure, I googled it and found:
This.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo
If you need your mental exercise for the day, plus a good laugh, take a look at it!
But, wanting to be sure, I googled it and found:
This.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo
If you need your mental exercise for the day, plus a good laugh, take a look at it!
06-18-2010, 07:32 AM
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When out kids were growing up we traveled through Buffalo to get to Utica to see our families.
I'll never forget our youngest asking " Daddy, do buffaloes live in Buffalo??
I love remembering their cute questions and sayings :D:D
I'll never forget our youngest asking " Daddy, do buffaloes live in Buffalo??
I love remembering their cute questions and sayings :D:D
06-18-2010, 07:47 AM
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My mom had to remind my kids (at least a dozen times) while we were in Yellowstone Park last summer, that there are NO buffalo in the US... only bison. Yesh! I thought the names were the same... guess not. Technically, we don't have buffalo in the wild here in the USA... only in zoos. The bison got that term from the settlers who had seen Cape Buffaloes and thought the bison to be a version of that animal. Whatever, right? I will still call them buffalo.
06-18-2010, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by MistyMarie
My mom had to remind my kids (at least a dozen times) while we were in Yellowstone Park last summer, that there are NO buffalo in the US... only bison. Yesh! I thought the names were the same... guess not. Technically, we don't have buffalo in the wild here in the USA... only in zoos. The bison got that term from the settlers who had seen Cape Buffaloes and thought the bison to be a version of that animal. Whatever, right? I will still call them buffalo.
06-18-2010, 01:24 PM
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when my DD was 4 we were looking at animals. came to a picture and I said that is a bison. lo and behold when she went to pre school she argued with the teacher that it was a bison not a buffalo. the teacher conceded.
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