swearing

when i was little and learned how to "flick someone off", my dad found a way to stop my bad habit. he said, yes the middle finger is bad, but the pointer finger is worse, so i went around putting my pointer finger in peoples faces, and when they asked what it meant, i would say, "i dont know, but its something really bad"

sarah

When I was five, I was in a daycare thing for my school waiting for my mom to take me home. While I was waiting, I wandered into the place where only the 5th graders (or "wise guys" as they were called) were aloud. One big 10-year-old looked at me and said "hey, little girl, you cant be in here!" and I said "Oh yeah I can! I can do whatever I want!" then he told me to shut up. Like most young children, I thought "shut up" was a swear. So i said "AWWWW, you said the 'sh' word!" At this, all the older kids cracked up.

Hannah

I used to think that 'harass' was a bad word. My mom would laugh when I wouldn't say it. I still don't like to say harass.

Toto

I used to believe that 'Pedestrian' was a bad word!

karz

My mother didn't curse much, but occasionally would say "damnation". I always thought it was two words: "damn nation" and couldn't figure out what the country had to do with her cutting her finger (or whatever had caused her cursing).

Sonya

when my daughter was 4 she came to me quite shocked and said "mam,my sister has just said an F word" i asked her to whisper the word to me so that i could tell her sister off,she them mouthed the words "piss off"

Anon

Remember when comic books used to use the word "phut" as a sound effect for a dull pop? I could never figure out why grownups were so horrified when I said it out loud....

Lee

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 used to think that Mayonaisse was a bad word.

Anon

I used to think our local chase sign read "shit" and our bank of america sign read "Bank Of Asshole", mainly because my parents said those words all the time

Dan

This belief was caused by "A Christmas Story". Because Ralphie says "fudge" during the movie, I thought that fudge(when used in that way) was the real F-word for a while. I later found out from my friend's potty mouth older sister that this was not the case!

Lauren

When I was in third grade, my friend's older sister convinced me that when some one said 'BS' it meant ' boloney sandwich'.

Westly

When I was like 5, I heard the B word and I thought it sounded at LOT like peach so I beleived it wasn't a bad word but it still meant that you hated them. So when I was angry at my Mom, I called her the B word. Then my dad got angry at me and all that. So I found it was a bad word.

Michelle

when i was at the age of 6 or so, i went to kids church (kinda like sunday school) and the conversation for that day was not to say Gods name in vein. well it was obviously clear that i didnt know what vein meant... at that point i thought it meant we were never to say it or it would be bad... so when we were at the dinner table saying our prayers my dad ended it with "in Jesus name i pray" and i stopped him abruptly and said "Dont say that! Its a bad word!" he stared at me with a confused look. soon my mom corrected me that its okay to say it but not as a swear word. im teased to this day and i can tell u right now i never say his name in vien :D

wait a gosh darn minute

I didn't know some swear words were worse than others.
My third grade teacher pulled three of us into the hall and made us tell the bad words we were saying on the way to school. My friends said, " I said damn" and "I said shit," so to be different, I said " I said fuck." The teacher grabbed me and said, "Do you know what that means?"
I didn't, and I sure didn't say it again for a long, long time...

Scared in Bflo.

When I was about 6 my mum always used to talk about tatty ard sheep or so I thought, until I pointed out some tatty ard sheep one day whilst out for a drive in the car, my dad had to pull the car over he was laughing so much apparently my mum actually called them tatty arsed sheep and I'd just misheard her.

Anon

My mom sewed lots of my clothes and the sewing machine didn't always cooperate. She called the bobbin "a bitch". Needless to say I gave my 4-H leader quite a surprise when I correcteed her!

Anon

I used to think gay was a very bad curse word. Then one day I read a book that said it(meaning happy of course) and I told my sister and she played along with me and told me that was the most inappropriate picture book there ever was.
I still don't like to say gay, even though it isn't a curse word.

WolfyGirl

I grew up in a very religious household and was always told that cursing was very bad. Around age eleven I began to listening to my own music, even some with curse words. I was always really nervous about playing this music ; I thought God would be so mad he would melt my stereo. Thankfully, it never happened!

Elizabeth

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