swearing

A friend of mine in Kindergarten once intimated the "fact" that "Bethlehem" was a swear word. She had me going there for a few seconds!

Walter

when i was like 3 i learned how to read my first book.... that book happened to be a sex book, and i thought it was like all my other books. my mother encouraged me to use the words that i had been reading and one time at dinner ( my mom had guests over) she asked me to say the words i had read in my books...so out of my mouth comes the dirtiest words ie; c***, Cu*, P***s, V****a, D***o....so on and so forth lol i didnt get in trouble but my mom found my special book...hehehe lol

amy nay

i used tobelive "swear words" were "square words". A common mis hearing. But... id always picture a tetris style game ( green falling blocks, blue rim, black background) whenever i heard a "Square word"

Nahtiak

when i was really little i was with my cousin and grandmother and we were going to fuddruckers. we got there and i must have said fuddruckers because my older cousin said what did u say? i repeated it and she said oh i thot you said something else. i said wut did u think i said? she got embarrased and said f*** and i said thats not a bad word! she said yes it is and so i asked my grandmother who hadnt heard our conversation. she said yes thats a bad word dont say it and i said but my mommy says it all the time!

em

When I was younger (first grade I think) I came home from school one day and randomly asked my mother "Mommy, is 'duh' a swear?" All I remember is her replying "Yes, dear" and me running off to pray for God's forgiveness for all the times I had said duh. I also urged all my friends to do the same in school the next day. Then, about a week later, during lunch, we asked an older boy something, to which he replied "No duh". Needless to say, we avoided that boy for the rest of the year.

Alex

when i was about 3 years old my mom said motherf****r, and i didn't know at the time that it was a bad word, and one day i said it to these guys and my mom rushed out and said "why did you say that word", and I said "because you said it mommy", and she said never to say cuss words.

misty

When I was in the 2nd grade I was in religious ed. with my mum teaching, and someone had written "F--- God" on the board, and it looked like my mother's handwriting. So I said "What's ---- mean?" She got a really, really angry look and told me to ask her after class. I still thought it was a religious word and was quite perplexed. In the car on the way home she told me it meant "sex in an angry way." After seeing my first rated R movie, I didn't understand all the talk about "'sex in an angry way' you" but I got the main idea after hearing some playground talk.

A year later, I stuck up my pinkie and some girl told me that it was a dirty gesture because she thought it was my middle finger and refused to be my friend. For years after that I thought sticking just your pinkie up was really, really bad.

Anon

When I was 6 I was so impressed with myself knowing cuss words, so I bragged to my 5 year old cousing "I know the F word and you don't!" He said "There IS no F word!" I told him what it was and he was like "F**K is not a bad word!" I called him "stupid" so he went running inside to tell his mom that I said the "S" word and ask if there was an "F" word. I was so embarrased that I hid in the closet for 2 hours. Lol.

Idaho City Girl

When I was about three, my parents and grandparents took me to a restaurant. One of the rules my mother had was that no one was ever allowed to say curse words around me. But you can't stop people from saying things when they're angry or upset.

So, we're in this restaurant, and I spill a big glass of water. Then, in the loudest voice I could manage, I yelled the most vile stream of curses I could think of.

"DADGUMMIT LORDY ME I SWEAR!"

We still laugh about this today. I'm 38.

Gary

When you're 2 and a half, you pretty much take at face value anything an adult might happen to utter around you. Your mind is a little sponge, soaking up the new and different, and language is an adventure. Indeed, I was praised for my quick uptake of new words. Hence, I believed I was in for lots of cuddles when I demonstrated my grasp of the vocabulary taught to me by my grandfather when I told my father that the stubborn bolt he was trying to loosen was, in fact, a c*%&sucker. I can still remember the way his mouth opened but nothing came out...

Potty Mouth

i heard a new word at school one day, 'twat', and decided that it was a cross between a twit and a prat, quite funny i thought and didn't quite understand why my mum got so angry when i jokingly called her one

han

Once when I was about 10 I called my Dad a "stupid dildo" without knowing what the word meant. I don't know where I'd heart it but I thought it was just a variation on "dumbo". A classic middle-class English parent, Dad just said something like, "Be careful of the words you use," without actually saying it was rude or explaining what it meant.

Anon

Like many a man from northern Ireland, my dad's language can frequently be described as "colourful". My nan, being from the republic, was more genteel, so when she cut herself whilst making dinner she just said "oh dear!"

"No nan," piped up her golden-haired, 5 year-old grandson (me), "you don't say 'oh dear' you say Jesus f'n wept!"

CFC 4 Life

when my friend and me were in fourth grade, she said that if u did the middle finger and touched it to something, like for example a pencil, then if u touched that pencil u would be cursed and get cooties or something like that. on the bus once i "accidentally" gave the middle finger and touched it to the front of the seat in front of us. for the rest of the ride, we sat indian style on the seat, desperately trying not to touch the seat in front of us

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