this isn't mine, it's something cute my sister told me a few days ago- when she was small she believed that the words in a text marked by the asterisk* were words that the author liked best of all.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- That people became mute because they said too many bad words— Micah
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon