swearing

When my little cousin was two, she was the cutest, most innocent-looking child you had ever seen. She was tiny, with blonde hair and blue eyes and a sweet little voice.

Anyway, our aunt was getting married and this old woman came up to my cousin before the wedding, saying "oh, how cute you are, what's your name, sweetie?"

My cousin replied, in her angelic little voice, "f***ie you, bitch." Not so sweet anymore!

Anon

up until I was 10 I never thought shit was much of a cuss word until I slammed my hand on the lunch table by accident and screamed "SHIT!". My friend told me it was a bad word and I laughed!

someone

I first learned the F word when I was around 12 years old. I thought it was a cool expressive word, one that my contemporaries and I had coined. At least I thought so until I used it at home one day. Sincerely believing that my parents would have no idea what the word meant, I called my brother an F'er, right in front of them! When I saw the horrified look on their faces, it began to dawn on me that they knew what the word meant! After a severe lecture and threats of other dire consequences, I learned to watch my language (at least around mom and dad).

Dixiestix

i woz brought up a christian and one time i woz reading the bible and came across a bit that said thou shall not swear. now as a christian i knew i woznt suppose 2 swear (as in say S*** etc) but i took and meaning wrong and for about a year after i read it i never said i swear ill do something or ill be there i swear. never once did i say the phrase "i swear"

misguided child

When I was about 9, i thought i was really clever by making up the phrase "birdbrain goes twit twat"! I thought it was innocent enough, I was just creating a phrase using three derogatory terms - I was quite a know it all! Birdbrain - stupid person; instead of him goin tweet tweet, he would go twit twat! My pride was short lived! I announced at a family gathering that I had made up, all by myself, a clever new saying! After saying the word twat infront of my nan, I was swiftly sent to my room! what disgraced me more was that i didnt know what the word meant, i was so embarrassed!

Lois

when i was about7 ish i used to think that the correct way to pronounce gand prix was grand pricks. when i shouted it out in class i had to stand in the corner for the rest of the lesson

tom

This isn't really a belief, more of an experience.

When I was in third grade, I was convinced that 'bad words' did not exist. If someone told me that I'd said a bad word (and they were mistaken, because I never said anything worse than 'stupid'), I would ask them indignantly how a word could be bad. The same thing happened if I accidentally used my middle finger to point to something - it was just a finger!

One day, while there was a substitute, we were working on something about the states and a few kids in my group had just realized that Massachusets, when said with an odd accent, sounded like "Massachu-shit." They were laughing hysterically at this, and I thought that "shit" just sounded funny to them and had no meaning, so I said it once or twice to get a laugh.

A few minutes later, one of the kids had somehow snuck away (the very same one that taught my my new word) to tell the teacher that I had said a bad word. I, of course, had absolutely no idea I had, and I didn't say the word "shit" until the seventh grade out of sheer embarassment.

Victoria

I worked at a daycare center after school and one day me and another girl who worked there walked into one of the classrooms and saw that the kids had had show and tell earlier that morning, we were asking them all what they brought in. one little boy came right up to us and said 'i brought in a dumb fuck', meaning a dump truck. we both practically fell off our chairs laughing!

tinkerbell

My cousin used to believe that Wells Fargo was a bad word.

Captain Wheeler

There was this kid in a higher grade than me and he called someone the E word (I was oly 7 so i thought it meant idiot or stupid head, not a swear) so later in class i got REALLY mad at some one and i called him the E word, unfortunatly the teacher heard me...

Stupid Girl

My older cousin told me never to say the word 'poot'. He said it had the same meaning as s#$* and F&^@, and if I said it, my parents would burst into flames... 0.o

Madame Butterfly

My little brother used to love swearing and even got to like the taste of mustard as my mum used it as a punishment for swearing. But when the Beatles single that went "Obladi-Oblada" was in the charts, he took great delight in singing the chorus at the top of his voice, then quickly declaring that it was ok to swear cos he was just singing the song. None of his older brothers and sisters dared to sing along even though we knew he wasn't really saying "bloody"!

Marz Scotland

When I was in Elementary School,my Classmates thought that Sex was a cuss word.I "Scared" them by saying it alot.XD

Dakata

When I was about 8 or so, I was listening to talk radio in the car when the speaker was talking about an "n-word." Gasp! I thought I knew all the swear words. I asked my Mom what it was and she lied saying she didn't know. I thought I could figure it out. I rattled of a bunch of made-up words starting with "n." I wasn't very creative. They were words like, "nit" and "nuck."

Caitriona

I used to believe that giving someone the finger actually put a curse on them. So I'd secretly go around my kindergarden class "cursing" the kids I didn't like luckily with my ring finger.

Melissa

i never knew wat the f word was until lsiting to a couple of 2pacs albums
( greatist rapper, srry for the spam)
then i knew it was a bad word and jut tried to not ssay it but would wen following his lyrics ;)

annnndy

I used to believe that when you said swear words on the phone, the phone would eat me.

florian french student in eighth grade