: 290 In 1972, William J. Rapaport, then a graduate student at Indiana University, came up with versions containing five and ten instances of "buffalo". He later used both versions in his teaching, and in 1992 posted them to the LINGUIST List.

Later, in 1972, the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport. Rapaport is a professor at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. The sentence does not have punctuation. It uses three different meanings of the word "buffalo". They are: Noun adjunct (a noun used as an adjective): the city of Buffalo, New York.

03/02/2019 · William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000. Last Update: Sunday, 3 February 2019 Note: or material is highlighted PDF version (25 January 2018)

Hij is in de literatuur bekend sinds 1972, toen de zin werd gebruikt door William J. Rapaport, een universitair hoofddocent aan de Universiteit van Buffalo. [1] In 1992 werd de zin door Rapaport gepubliceerd op de Linguist List [2] en hij wordt ook gebruikt in het boek The Language Instinct van Steven Pinker uit 1994.