swearing

When I was two years old I thoght the F word was a good word. So when a old lady came in front of my mom I said
That "That fucken' lady dosen't know how to drive." Then my mom toled me it was a bad word.

Anon

in my old christian school they said its against the skool rules to swear, but since I was young I thought the swearing they meant was like a promise...

Damian

Ok. I used to think "fudge" was a swear!

I saw this random movie when I was very little. This boy said a swear, the f word, and back then, I didn't know they cut it out. I couldn't hear it, but a woman called his mother and told her that her son said, "fudge".

Then... the mother put soap in his mouth! I was horrified! I didn't say "fudge" for a VERY VERY long time...

Rebecca Sears rofl

When I was around 4, I once heard an adult say "Oh, s**t" under his breath. It could have been by dad, but I dunno. I asked him what he said, and he told me he said "yittybit." To this day, I still say "Oh yittybit!" at school when I'm mad.

Chris

There's a Peanuts movie called Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) that I watched a lot when I was younger. At one part in the movie, Snoopy is driving a car and the car gets rear-ended. The drivers of the other cars start yelling at him, and as Marcie is saying stuff to them in French--as the characters were in France in this movie--Snoopy is making all sorts of hand gestures at them, including swiping under his chin. When I was a kid, I had no idea what that meant, and just thought he was being funny. I even did that to someone in fifth grade at lunch, and was surprised when he got all outraged and told the lunch lady what I'd done. Years later, I learned that what I'd done was the Italian equivalent of raising the middle finger. Whoops.

Funky Cold Candita

When I was a child, I thought that "ferret" was a bad word, and to call someone a ferret was one of the meanest things you could do. To this day, I cringe when I hear the word.

Colleen

When I was 3 my older sister would say weird words so she wouldn't swear. One of those was 'grape'. She and her friends said this because they wanted pluck annoying people's head off like a grape. Well, one day she was babysitting me, and she said "He is such a grape!" I went to preschool the next day and told somebody my sister said the G word. Today I have problems eating grapes.

G****

When I first started school I remember our *very* scary teacher took out a tin of black soap and said that if anyone ever said any bad words she would wash their mouth out with it and it would stain their mouth for weeks so that everyone would know! Of course there's always some (not me!) who have to push it, and one time we honestly thought she was going to but the bell rang.....

Crazy Moo

I used to think that the word sha*ged meant killed. and I saw Ken Barlow (from corrie) in the paper and the headline was corrie star's dog killed in fight and I went up to my mum and said "hey mum, You heard that ken Barlow's dog was sha*ged by another dog?"

aby

When I was little (about 5 or so) we were all comparing our packed lunches in the dining hall. Somebody asked me how many sandwiches I had and I said two, and stuck up my index and middle finger (in the UK this is rather rude). OPne of the older kids reported me to the dinner ladie for swearing, and I had to stand at the naughty wall all lunchtime.

I hadn't even heard of swearing at the time and was really upset because I had no idea what I'd done.

AMT

I heard someone use the word "slut" and I thought that was a really cool nickname. I called just about everyone I knew a slut until I finnally called my mother a slut. Then she filled me in on the real meaning. :)

Lisa

When I was very little, I lived in an apartment complex next door to some VERY religous people. The children of said family beleived that stomach, butt, and belly were swear words.

Anon

When I was in grade one, I loved to rhyme words. However, being so young, I didn't know many words to rhyme. So, one day before the bus came, I yelled to my mom and my brother that I made up a new "poem," and just yelled out "ducky fucky!" Naturally my mom and brother were shocked and tried to explain that "fuck" is a word I should never say. I didn't get why there were words I shouldn't say, but I understood enough to the point that I haven't sworn in my front of my parents since that day... granted I will swear around my brother.

AT

My dad always used to say that swearing was really bad, so whenever I swore I thought I would get arrested and taken away by a huge policeman with a big round nose. (That's what I thought they all looked like!)

Zoe

I used to think "fummy" was a bad word. No clue why.

Anon

when I was a little kid my mom would always say F--k I thought It sounded like truck so one day I had a huge fight with my friend so I said "Shut the truck up!" After a trip to the principal I had learned my lesson

Snarf

I used to believe that the word "stupid" was a swear. After finding out it wasn't, I used it continually for a week straight.

Anon

My mom told me that "shut up" was a TERRIBLY bad word, and that "piss" was completely HORRID! My mom also never told me what the word "fart" meant. I use all 3 of these terms CONSTANTLY now, even though my mom tries to drive it from my head.
I also used to believe (Without anybody's help but my own warped mind) that these terms were BEYOND the F-word magnified by 10. "Mind your own bisiness" "Mind your own beeswax" (These I use consistantly) and, this is hilarious and my parents still tease me about it now, "Your car smells like chocolate" (I don't say this one often)

I really needed help and I still do.

A wacked out phsyco

when i was 9, i was guesing what birthday present was and she said it rhymes with four, so i just kept on guessing diffrent letters in front of ore and when i got 2 h(hore) my mom yelled at me and i had no idea why

bad 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