I used to think that idiot was a swear word.

Amy Szymanski

i used to believe that the f word was "funk"!!!

Anon

When i was in 3rd or 4th grade, my friends and i used to play hide and seek tag at lunch. One day my friend and i had hidden by the bike racks which we werent supposed to go by. 2 1st graders came up, "ooooo you're not supposed to be down there!" one said. "oh shut up." i said as we bagan to walk away. "o0o0o0o0o you said a bad word! o0o0o im telling!" she sneered. My friend and i almost died laughing.

blonde

I thought there was NO difference between heck and, well, that Other Word, heheh, (don't want to mention it on this site) and so I' always like, What the h---!!!!!!!!!

mooga looga!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) cheesey name, i kno!

when I was about 3, i couldn't say "Frog" so I always said "Fuck". My mom's friend would always say" Tell him to frog off!" so I would scream at the top of my lungs "FUCK OFF YOU!"

Anon

Well, this isn't a belief, it's more an event.
I was at school one day, Grade 3 or 4, and the mailman came past. my friend Lara shouted out to him, and he replied "Mama fungoulo (I'm not sure how to spell it) Lara!" to her. She didn't know what it meant, and we didn't either, so we decided it meant Hello, or good afternoon. So we started shouting it out to people on the street. Unfortunatly, we yelled it to a middle-aged Italian woman who DID know what it meant. We got a detention each, and had to clean the ENTIRE school oval, a big task for 3 8/9 year olds.
(For those of you interested, what we were shouting basically translates into "mother-f***er" or "go f*** your mother"

Tenten

i use to belive that if you swear then youll die in a riot!im a dumbass

caleb

This is my brother, not me.

His name is Tucker, and we were signing up for this website. He wanted to put "tuckerman100" as his screen-name, but the computer kept saying, "That's naughty! Why don't you choose a nicer name?" We were perplexed, and finally got our mother to help. Needless to say, she was furious when she found out that the company had mistaken "t" for "f." Tucker doesn't use his name as a username anymore...

Hannah (I got the GOOD name!)

A young friend believed that the word dummy was a swear word. I used dummy to describe a puppet and was scolded by the girl. "My teacher said that was a bad word!"
It was fine by my use of the word.

Anon

I used to believe that the meaning of term "screw you" was "forget you" (or something like that) because, often when people are frustrated, they'll say "screw this!"

As a child, I had just broken up with my "first boyfriend." My "friend" liked him and was talking relentlessly about him one day. I soon became annoyed with this (my wounds still fresh) and responded to her: "Well, just screw him! I don't care anymore!"

She obviously knew the exact meaning of "screw" because she never talked to me again.

Arcana

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

when i was six i called my tehcer a fucker: i thought it meant a mean person

bobjoe

My parents were fairly tollerant about me watching TV programmes for a slightly older audience. My brother got me addicted to South Park at around age 8. My brother always told me, "NEVER repeat the words you hear on South Park or mum and dad will abandon you." I haven't sworn since, and frequently tell people not to do so, even though I am fully aware that my parents aren't so heartless.

Kat

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