swearing

My mum told me a pratt was a camel's bottom, and that one buttock cheek was called a nate. This caused much hilarity with the late 70s advert "Coffee tastes nicer with Coffee Mate", which of course we converted to 'nate'.

Rossi46Fan

I used to believe that it’s OK to use what Mom said when I was 6, but I realized it’s the opposite. My high school and the bus are “profanity havens,” so I said some goofy words (“Trompin’ Trombones, Oh Reppies, etc.) in place of them (especially saying God’s name in vain).

Mrs. Wary of Profanity

My friend Joe's cousins told thier baby brother that Fanequay (fan-ek-way) was a bad word and a few days later called him a piece of fanequay. He ran to his mom and told her and she said, thats nice dear. it sounded funny!

Anon

my friend thinks dat ''frickin''is a bad word. i later found out that he means prick

jessicatinchismyaunt!

One time in a hotel, during a trip, I was about 10, and my little brother was 7. We got in the elevator, and he kept kicking me , so I called him a brat. My poor little brother had clearly misunderstood the meaning of it, and shouted "MOM! Becca called me a SOB! This was in front of about 8 people.

Needless to say, he got a long lecture after we got off.

Becca

I know a kindergartener who thinks that "Dude" is the worst word ever. She was very upset when one of her classmates said "Dude!!"

Pear

i used to belive that saying "shut up" was the biggest curse word and one day my cousin who is older than me said shut up to me and i ran up to my mom and clung on to her crying and at the same time trying to tell her that he called me a shut up

jay k.

I'm and eighth grade teacher and a little 1st grader came to me and told me billy the 8th grader had said the f-word on the bus, and so i asked billy, and he said he'd never said that one the bus, ever, so i asked the 1st grader what the f-word was, and she told me she wasnt allowed to said that word, so i had her wisper it to me, and it was "fart", so i just told billy right infront of her not to be saying that f-word (fart) anymore

Anon

I'm a teacher and one of my little tattle tales came up to me one day and told me little tommy had said a bad word, so i asked him what the word was, and he said he was too embrarassed to say it, so i told him to spell it, and he goes "well... s... h..." and i said "okay!, tommy get up here!" and tommy goes "no i didnt say a bad word, i promise, so i asked my little tattler what the word was. and he wispers "stupid", leave it to first graders to spell....

Anon

I used to believe that sexual terms were bad words. I remember my friends and I would go into the girls' bathroom and whisper stuff like, "Vagina! Sperm! Periods!".

Imagine how shocked we were when the lady teachers taught us girls about periods and whatnot in fourth grade.

Jessica Tinch

My dad had a very bad vocabulary when I was little. Every time someone beaped at him in traffic he would say "f you". My mom never knew about his bad vocabulary. So one day I was driving with my mom in a convertible and a corvette was behidn us beaping. I turned around at them and screamed "f you" as loud as I could. My mom was embarassed and the people in the corvette were laughing histerically.

Brian

When I was just learning to read, I used to see the signs that read 'Menswear', 'Womenswear' and 'Childrenswear' in department stores and would refuse to go into these areas as I was always taught that swearing was wrong.
I only had my mistake pointed out to me after my dad returned one day to find me stearnly telling a shop assistant that they shouldn't be teaching children to swear.
It never put me off shopping though.

Flos

when I was little I heard my dad yelling at my uncle (his inlaw) he told him to f**K off. later i asked him what that meant. He told me it meant to go away or something like that. the next day at school my teacher was trying to help me with something I already knew how to do so i was going to ask her to leave then i remembered my dads way of saying that i thought it was the cool way to say it i told her to f**k off and she called my dad he was so embarased

Anon

I believed that if I used bad language God would strike me dead. I was 15yrs.old before I realised that my father swore with ease and was still alive.It never became a habit though.

Isabella

I thought the word "funky" was a bad word until high school. -What I didn't realize was that I had been saying it without the "n" and that's why it was a bad word!

RAM

When I was 6, I heard my mom say pitiful, so I snuck under the kitchen table when nobody was looking and whisper "pitiful, pitiful, pitiful,"to myself because I thought a noughty word!!!

Craig