When I was in 3rd grade Catholic school, one day after lunch we were runnignt o the playground and on the walkway were the letters FUC in professional spray painted block letters. I knew from my classes that it was not a word because there was no E at the end or any other letter. I ignored it. The next day someone had scrawled a "K" at the end. I read it eff...you...seee....kay....fuck. It made no sense since it was not a word. A teacher's aid heard me and yanked me to the principal's office (where I heard Nuns used whips with a metal rin on the end to punish you with). No one was there so I was released not knowing what I did. I heard the word the next time about 3 years later and thought I had invented it. I took credit for it and was so adamant about it I convinced others I invented it too.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- I used to think that beet was a bad word because it had 4 letters!— Marcie