I was about 11/12, and I was telling my mum and step-dad about a teacher I hated, and I said he was a 'twat'. They were shocked, and asked if I knew what it meant...I thought then it meant a penis, but I never told them that!
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- i asked my step dad why i never see icecream trucks in cali and he said there iligel— brittany