swearing

When I Was 5 Or 6, I thought that saying curse words was really funny. I heard them from my parents and I learned most of them. I knew I couldn't say them around my parents or I would get in trouble so I did something really stupid. I would run around this circle of my kitchen, living room, and front room. When I would go through the front room I would say every swear word I knew really fast and then laugh hysterically when I ran through the other two rooms while my parents would be really confused. I would do this on average about 30 times!

Reid B.

When my sister was 5 and I was 7, her, me, and my mum were trying to train my dog. I told her to "sit", but the dog didn't move.

My sister then said "You have to talk in a baby voice" so she went up to the dog and started saying saying "shit" because she thought it was sit in a bad voice. My mum started laughing, but then said "That is a naughty word, don't ever say it."

I knew what my sister meant, so when I started school that year and the teacher said "Sit down" I thought I was going to cry.

Vinia

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

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

i used to think that epcot was pronounced "epc**k" and once in school, one of my friends were talking about disney world and how they went to epcot and a proudly yelled "ITS PRONOUNCED EPC**K", but it was in kindergarden so i just got explained to what c**k meant

epcot (not epc**k, lol)

I told my younger sister that "flipping heck" was a swear word. She believed me and never said it again.

Ruth

I once thought that the word "reason" was a bad word.

gullable

My friend had two older siblings and seemed to always know more than me. When we were in second grade, he said, "I don't know why everyone thinks f*ck is a bad word. It just means butt." Not wanting to seem ignorant, I said, "Oh, I know!"

Jen

I used to think "farce" was a swear-word - well when you think about it it sounds like a cross "fart" and "arse" so I guess that's why I thought that

Sgt Pepper

I used to think that the word "ignorant" was a swear word. I would often tell my brother that he was "SO IGNORANT!".

Anon

when i was very young and learning to talk, i just repeated everything people said around me. My parents were usually pretty careful about what they said when i was present, but once we were in the car and someone cut in front of us or something, and my dad said "Oh, damn it!" And then of course my mum and dad could hear from the back seat "Damn it! Damn it!"

To this day, whenever i am at a family gathering with my parent and someone says damn, they just HAVE to tell the story.

you just have no idea how embaressing...

junior sweargirl

In second grade, my friend had told me to say "luck" in the name game. I, of course, then ended up saying the "f" word. She then tattled on me and got me in trouble, and I had no idea what that word was or why it was bad until a few years later.

Kala

I had heard ALOT of bad things back in the day.. And I have said just as many!!.. One day at home I was thinking to myself how stupid I was because I did something that just wasn't very bright. So I decided to use a word to describe myself at this time.. Well earlier that day I heard the word "Slut" and thought that it meant "stupid" or something of that sort. So, I went up to my dad to proudly express the new word I learned.. (of course not knowing the true meaning of the word)...... "Im A Slut!!" I exclaimed..... Well.. My dad didnt take that too well.. although my sister found it funny, it was odd to have my dad explain what that is to me!!

Wentworth

In fourth grade my friend and I thought we were cool and swearing was the "cool" thing to do. So we would yell at her dog "Get off me you f*ck!" and use swears totally wrong everytime her mom would try and yell at us she would end up laughing.

Anon

i used to believe that if i said a bad word, the devil would come and throw me out the window go figure

Anon

I was almost afraid to say "cinimon bun" or "cinimon toast", because, to me, it almost sounds like you're saying S.O.B.

Anon

Talking about swearing when we were younger, about 7, my friend asked me if I ever swore. I replied, "not really, but I sometimes call my dad a bloody bugger". We're 14 now, and it was only a few months ago that she realised that it is actually "bloody bugger".... not "bloody BURGER".. lol.

Jesi

when I was three I believed it was ok to say cuss words when you got mad at people. So when I was ridding in my mom's van with her a guy cut us off so I yelled at his car move f***head.

Eric

man.. i used to have the worst sailor mouth when i was about 3. i was watching tv with my grandma, and some kids were playing outside, and making a lot of noise. So i stood up on the couch and shouted " shut the f*ck up! i'm trying to watch some d*mn tv!"out the window. lets just say i tasted soap for the next two weeks.

sailor girl

when ever i watched movies i couldn't help noticing how people often used the term "son of a b**ch", except it made no sense to me because i thought they were saying "sound of a beast."

Johnny M