when i was about 6, my friend and i believed that there would be terrible consequences if you said a swear word. ( you'd be grounded for eternity, or you'd blow up, of the swear elves would come at night and sew your lips together) we decicded to make our own swears and not tell them to anybody so no one would be able to punish us for saying them. As i recall we had one swear for every letter. Once, we were given a time out by the 1st grade teacher, and we were so shocked that she didn't react when we called her the j,k,b,t,y,w,e,and r words.
"I'm disapointed in you two. usually you remember to use indoor voices"
"Juktre kupds, you bhugfes tyuer."
"Yeah, your a ympos werfen rebmez"
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I used to believe that bizarre was a swear word.Anon
- I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.Anon
- i used to believe that if you said a swear word you would turn into the opposite sex the next day— jess
- My cousin used to think that "body" was a swear word.— Jordan
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon