when i was about 3 years old my mom said motherf****r, and i didn't know at the time that it was a bad word, and one day i said it to these guys and my mom rushed out and said "why did you say that word", and I said "because you said it mommy", and she said never to say cuss words.
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
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to believe everything starting with f was a bad word after I learned about the "f-word". — Sarah