swearing

I always thought "vulnerable," was a bad word because it started with "vul" as in "vulgar," so whenever someone said vulnerable I thought they were using a vulgar word~

don'tsayitit'sbad!

When I was little I'd hear my dad swearing on the phone but I thought it was some cool grown-up language he'd made up. There was this one word that sounded the coolest and I thought it was a driving direction or something. So one day I was in the car with my mom and I asked her which way it meant. She looked at me wide-eyed and asked me where I learnt it.

Anon

when i was younger i had watched the movie a Christmas story, and remembered the one kid getting in trouble for saying something bad.it had said fudge instead of f*** and then was saying how it wasn't fudge but another word.i hadn't paid attention to the last part ,so for years thought fudge was a bad word.

me

i saw one of the national lampoon's family vacation movies when i was like 5 and chevy chase told someone to "kiss my ass" and i was confused as to why he would want someone to do that.

Matt

One time when I was little, my middle finger hurt. I told my mom, "My Finger hurts!" She took my index finger in her hand and said, "Is it this one?" I said "No! Its this one!" I then flipped her off, but I didn't know that it was bad. She said, "You're not supposed to do that! Bad girls do that!" I then ran off sobbing because I thought I had committed the biggest sin in the entire world!

anon

I’m Spanish speaker and I was until I was 35 y/o. When I was kid my parents never explained to me the meaning of some bad words but they told me they were bad words and as I heard them all the time with out understanding what they were talking about, I thought anything that I couldn’t understand was bad, at the same time the Beatles song became so popular on the radio and I was convinced that people liked to sing bad word songs.

Victor Ruiz

I used to think when I was about 3 or 4 that whenever someone said a swear word, God would zap that person with a lightning bolt that came out of his finger. The more often a person swore, the greater the voltage of the lightning bolt.

Sara

When I was very young I knew all the swear words, I also knew my parents would punish me severly if I got caught saying any one of them. Then I heard my mom say "shit" when she thought she was alone, she had this evil look in her eye that scared the crap out of me. It took me 10 years to realize that even if I had uttered a swear word, my mom wouldn't have thrown me down like she did with the phone all those many years ago!

Brian

when i was younger, when i meant 2 say freckles, id say freckers.she and other people were always laffing, cos it sounded like the f word.

RND2003

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

I used to get the words 'twat' and 'twit' mixed up. I called my sister a twat in front of my mother once, and she was quite suprised, saying "I don't think you meant to use that word." I proudly proclaimed, "I *like* the word twat!" and skipped off to my room.

Anon

when my friend luke and i were little, luke belived that the word '' indian burn'' was a bad word.

wacko zacho

I was always the type of kid to want to show everyone what I knew. I was about 6 and I was talking to my mom and she called me one of those pet names that was still kind of insulting like "rump roast", so I thinking that I would make a come back would call her a w(hore).....thinking it was another way to say horse. OPPS! My bad.

No harm no foul

My cousin used to think that putting his thumb up was like giving someone the finger so he always would always put up his thumb when he got mad at someone. Also he used to think the "stuff" in his groin area were called peanuts.

Mac_and_Duck

I used to think 'ham' and 'afro' were swears.

David *

I used to think a bastard oughta be a kind of bird. Sort of like a buzzard.

Spooky

When I was like four, my family was driving somewhere. I saw a sign that had graffiti on it, and I went : "Mommy, what does f-u-c-k spell?

Anon

When my younger sister was little (about 3 or 4) she thought saying 'shut up' was bad, so whenever someone said it she would start yelling at us.

Aly

I thought that English was the only language that had swear words!

Bootlebat

I was horrified, yet amused when I was walking through town one day with my 7 year old cousin. We walked past the French Connection UK shop, and she suddenly declared at the top of her lungs, 'Mummy said never to say fuck because it's naughty, so why does the shop have it in the window?'

Of course she was talking about the abbreviation 'FCUK'

Bless her!

Emilié