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by Amelia Raitt Payne, M.D.

HEAD BUTT:  As staff physician at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I have two problems with head butt:  The practice of butting should be limited to sheep, and the term is redundant.

Why would anyone wish to imitate the behavior of an animal with such a small brain?  When humans butt someone, they risk injury to a much larger but poorly used brain and risk spending a life like Muhammed Ali's. 

As to the redundancy, I'm not a linguistic specialist like most of the staff here, but really, can you butt with any body part other than the head?  Head butt sounds as dumb as foot pedal and mental attitude. 

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