When I was young I used to think that the word bullshit was actually boo ship. I used to go around saying it and wonder why I wasn't getting into trouble...
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe my middle name was a 'bad word' because my mom only used it when I was in trouble.— DJ
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- When I was 7 years old I used to believe that the Pirates with their ship they really existed — Enrico
- When we were young, the adults said that the rudest possible word was 'District Nurse'. And we believed them— Steve Haughton
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin