When I was about six, I always head people talking about the "F word." Since I didn't know the word in question, I assumed that they meant "fart." Now my teacher was very strict, and you got in big trouble for saying it. One day I was sent home with a letter, and upon seeing the envelope attached to my shirt, she asked "what did you do?" My reply? "I said the F word." My mother turned white and started to panic..until she opened the note, that is.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- i believed the f-word was fart until i was about 8.— Kendra
- I thought the f-word was fart.— Caroline
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.— Tara
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah