swearing

When I was little I understood that there were certain secret words that you were never ever supposed to say, & that some of them are worse than others-- so even after I had learned all of the actual swears, I figured there must be some left that I had never heard, that were even worse, that I would learn when I got older. I was disappointed when I found out that fuck and shit and so forth are all there is. Sometimes I still hope that there really are more swears for me to learn, but you're not allowed to learn them until you're 40 years old (like the Kabbalah)!

Mungojelly

When I was in primary school, we used to do this little rhyme where we said, "Silence in the courtyard, silence in the street, the biggest twit in England is just about to speak - starting from now." One time I said this little rhyme, but instead of saying 'twit' I said 'twat' because I thought they meant the same thing and were equally rude. Twit isn't a very rude word, so I assumed that twat wasn't either. So the little boy, Tim, who had spoken and been crowned the biggest twat in England, by me, went mooching to the teacher and went "She said I was the biggest twat." and I got severely told off. *blush*

Nemo

When I was little my mom told me that if you said the "f word" a curse would be put on you. She also told me that when people say the "f word" it means that whoever you say it to, you want to put a curse on them. Yeah, weird... However, I was scared of saying the "f word", but when I was eleven everyone was saying it and nobody died, so I figured it was a lie.

Aerith

I thought it was "fuck-an-egg" until I was 16.

Anon

I used to say "Shut up the hull" instead of "Shut up the h***," according to my mom.

Joey Schwartzman

When me and my brother were little our parents TRY they're best NOT to swear infrount of us cause you know how kids are they'll repeat everything you say so instead of swearing they would spell out the swearing word say for instances if they wanted to say DAMN they would say D A M N!!!! And me and my brother would be so confused til we started to learn to read and spell cause then when our parents would spell out a swearing word we would say "DAD DON'T YOU MEAN SHIT INSTEAD OF S H I T"?

BreNBreN

I didn't know the differnce between heck and h*ll. One time I went outside and said "What the h*ll?". My mom scolded me for that.LOL

Cool Girl the potty mouth

I thought that shut up was swearing.How dumb!

Shut up!!!!!

My mother told me that when she was little a girl told her that waving the finger meant "hi!".So she waved it at someone in the next car and got in trouble for it.

Lindsay

my sisters and i invented an imagination game called the alley cat restaurant, some cross between a disney movie and a soap opera. my youngest sister, who always had to be the boy, played thomas o'malley (a la aristocats). there was some pretended romantic triangle and i said, "Tom doesn't love you. he's after one prime pussy." my mom came running in to the room screaming, "what did you say??" and i started yelling "pussy cat! pussy cat!" i didnt really know what i had said, i wa only about 9, but i got the fact that it wasnt something my mom wanted to hear coming out of my mouth.

hels bels

When I was 15 years old, I mention the word "pussy" and there was teenage women accusing me of saying a bad word then I was put to detention for the whole day. Because I thought that "pussy" meant cat, I first heard that word from a James Bond movie, Goldfinger and Octopussy.

Anon

I was in the car with my "friend(ya right) and i saw the christmas lights cuz it was christmas...i said holy cow! and my "friend" say "KELSEY SWEARED! im gunna tell" i looked at her like wtc! what did i do? i was 10 at the time so i wanted to strangle her!

kelsorox

when i was 6 i cut my finger at school, and i was sitting down looking at it saying "bloody, bloody, bloody...", coz that's what it was. my best friend wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the day because she thought i was swearing! oops

Anon

when my brother and i were in a public place with our mother and actually getting along, to irritate her we would each say one syllable of a bad word and we thought we were so tough... for example:
ME: Sh
BRO: -it

and we would get faster and faster untill our mom told us she was getting a headache. she never really yelled at us for what we're doing. She yells at me now when i say 'damn' and i'm 22.

K8

When I was 8 or 9 I was walking through the ravine with my friend who was a year older than me. Some boys were giving us a hard time, so she yelled to them, "Stop it you sonofabitch!" and clapped her hand over her mouth. I asked her what that meant, and she said, "It means son of the devil...I think." So when I got home, my Dad was entertaining an old friend of his from the Navy and I walked in and said, "Dad, what's a sonofabitch?" and he nearly flew across the table to strangle me, but his friend pulled him back, laughing, and told him to relax. He didn't tell me, but I knew it had nothing to do with a devil!

Shelley