my friend used to think "dumbass" was pronounced literally, so she went around calling people a "dum-bass" right up until she was 16. She only figured out then that it was acutally "dum-arse" but a hell-of-a-lot of people thought it was hilarious when she said it!
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- i thought the name Anon, was really a name...pronounced A-Non...haha i figured it out— Norman einstien
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I thought you had to get a license in order to be a parent (which acutally might not be a bad idea!)— Elviessa
- I used to believe that your arse cheeks were actually full of shit!Anon
- i used to believe that women peed out of their arse and pooed out of their vagina— TIM wilson