I used to get the words 'twat' and 'twit' mixed up. I called my sister a twat in front of my mother once, and she was quite suprised, saying "I don't think you meant to use that word." I proudly proclaimed, "I *like* the word twat!" and skipped off to my room.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- My sister used to think that "spit" was a bad word. She meant "shit".— "Spit!"
- 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
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl