swearing

We told me little brother that the worse swearword was 'bridgewater' & then would stand behind my mum & use it liberally just to upset the little squirt!!! He believed it for years & is now in an institution! OK, so that last bit was a lie!

Nick

I used to believe that BS meant big stinker. One day my mom told mer that some uncle of mine had died. I didn't even know I had an uncle so I wasn't upset. I said "What a BS." My mom grounded me for a week. I was 9 then.

Duck y

when i was a jewish kid growing up, at the age of about 10, i heard from one of my friends that if you swore, you would go to hell and be with the devil. one of my other friends informed me that the devil went around and cheated people out of souls, and then kept them to work for him. well, i always had a spark of perverse evil in me, so i figured if i went to hell, i could find a way to talk the devil into letting me work with him and i thought it would be so exciting to collect souls with him. i had never sworn before in my life, but after that i started sweraing A LOT and made it my goal in life to go to hell and assist the devil when i died. i'm still working for it!!!

EVIL666

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

for some reason, i distinctly remember the first time i heard the words "shit" and "fuck". i was sitting in the doctors' surgery with my mum and best friend, aged about 5 or 6 (i'm guessing). anyway, my best friend was repeating these words and i asked if i could have one. i rather liked the sound of "fuck", thinking it just sounded nice and round and squidgy as a word. i adopted this word and it was only later that i learned it's true meaning. I was disappointed to find out that my lovely word meant something so "rude" and "naughty".

Sophie

in 4th grade, me and a bunch of people were coming up with words that rhymed with "Mitch" because he was a guy there, so there was like fitch glitch etc, but i couldnt remember if it was "bitch" or "ditch" that was bad, so i yelled out as loud as i could "BITCH" then the whole teachers table looked at our table...lol

Anon

When i was a chid i used to think the word "mofo" was a general insult like "fool" or "idiot"...so of course i said it a lot in public and i got a lot of looks.

Dan

i believed at 9 years of age that swear words were new. i didn't realize they were age-old, but rather thought someone was just now coming up with these 'bad words'.

sweetfreak

once at preschool, me and some other kids stuck up our middle fingers, having no clue what it meant, and my mom who worked at the day care told me and my friend tabitha that if we stuck up our middle finger, we'd get struck by lightning. since lightning is usually accompanied by dark clouds and rain, and since there was none i thought it'd be ok just this one time, so the 2 of us kept doing it...and then there was this teengage boy who worked there and said, "she just stuck up her middle finger. she's gonna get struck by lightning!" i didn't learn until i was in grade school what it actually meant.

Anon

when i was small i used to think that stupid was a really bad swear word and when i heard someone say stupid i would bawl my eyes out and then expecially if my sister said it .. i would pull her hair and then one day i realized that it meant dumb and it wasnt bad so i started saying it and teaching little kids it wasnt bad and one day wen i was like 9 years old i told a kinder garden that it wasnt bad and since then i alwayz got in trouble

isabela

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

One time in a hotel, during a trip, I was about 10, and my little brother was 7. We got in the elevator, and he kept kicking me , so I called him a brat. My poor little brother had clearly misunderstood the meaning of it, and shouted "MOM! Becca called me a SOB! This was in front of about 8 people.

Needless to say, he got a long lecture after we got off.

Becca

When I was 6, I used to think the term "dummy" was a curse word. So I felt really grown-up and cool calling someone "dummy".

Jenny

I first heard the "F" word when I was in the fourth grade but I misheard it. When I told my Dad that I knew the "F" word, I told him that it was "fauk!" He was still ashamed of me.

Anon

when i was younger, me and my sister were going through the alphabet trying to find words that rhyme with party (like u do..), so when we got to 'f', so 'farty' my mum had a massive go at us and said it was a very rude word...i thought farty was a swear word for years afterwards.. :S

pixie

I never heard the word 'crap' until I was 18, when a group of workmates were discussing a boozy night out.

They roared with laughter as one of them described crawling drunkenly under some bushes for what I heard as a 'crab'.

Why, I wondered, would he go in the bushes for a crab, and why would one be there, and how would he know anyway, and what use was a crab to a drunk?

Puzzled me for a very long time, that one.

Carla Randle

I used to think that when someone say bad words on movies or in songs that they would mix 2 words together to make a bad word. Because if you cussed, then devil would come and take you.

JOE

As a younger child than I am now I had a blanket, but being only small, i would not say " iwant my blanket" I would say, without realising "I want my back shit." It never gets old.

carcrashstar

When I was 9, I used to believe telling somebody they were buff was a cuss word. Considering I heard it on television and had no idea what they were talking about, 6 years later, it's kind of funny.

Tiff

I remember in middle school I had read some detective novel or another where one character describes another as a "sonofabitch," just like that, all one word. I misread it, and thought it was a neat, new curse word I had never heard before. I didn't realize until high school that "snofabitch" is not a real word.

Chris M.