When i was young my dad told me to stop calling my friend a bitch and to call her a "bench" which was way worse. To this day i sometimes catch myself muttering 'bench' after someone annoys me.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - When we were young, we used to call a woman's breasts, 'Hum Hums'— Steve Haughton
- My friend Chris told me that when he was young, he thought that "elemeno" was the letter between k and p.— Jocelyn666
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- i used to think the "Smack my Bitch Up" song by Prodigy was "Snap my picture"..like Snap my pic-cha!
Anon - I used to believe that the closer it was to Sunday, the worse your sins were.— heathen