It’s extremely obscure as a verb in North America too, fwiw. Buffalo the city was probably better known 150 years ago, when it was an economic powerhouse as on

It’s extremely obscure as a verb in North America too, fwiw. Buffalo the city was probably better known 150 years ago, when it was an economic powerhouse as one of the end points of what’s still the second most famous canal in the Western Hemisphere. Afterward it continued to be a significant industrial center until the decline of manufacturing turned the Great Lakes region into part of the “Rust Belt” in the past 50 years. Most Americans probably know of it these days because it still hosts an American football team. Anyway, the point isn’t that that’s a common sentence. It’s that it’s a grammatical one.