I used to think that when someone say bad words on movies or in songs that they would mix 2 words together to make a bad word. Because if you cussed, then devil would come and take you.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- That people became mute because they said too many bad words— Micah
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina