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.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I thought "sake" was a curse word— shh
- in grade school, i used to believe that test tube was a naughty word and was embarassed to say it.— miss sara
- I used to believe my middle name was a 'bad word' because my mom only used it when I was in trouble.— DJ
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m