I used to think it was illegal for swear words to appear in print. Then one day, a classmate brought Frederick Forsyth's novel "The Odessa File" to school and showed us a page that had the F word on it. I was shocked but pleasantly surprised to see it, and as we read that sentence to each other, we felt like rebels!
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I used to believe that bizarre was a swear word.Anon
- I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.Anon
- i used to believe that if you said a swear word you would turn into the opposite sex the next day— jess
- My cousin used to think that "body" was a swear word.— Jordan