Jim, you missed the point about Buffalo Bill. Nothing to do with his 'being' a buffalo, but of his never having seen one. He only saw bison. It's an example of semantic misyse -- as some claim for some usages of 'folk'.

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'That shiny white animal with silvery horns -- is it a water buffalo?'

'No - it's a wash-bison.'

I am thanking u