when i was younger i had watched the movie a Christmas story, and remembered the one kid getting in trouble for saying something bad.it had said fudge instead of f*** and then was saying how it wasn't fudge but another word.i hadn't paid attention to the last part ,so for years thought fudge was a bad word.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I used to believe my middle name was a 'bad word' because my mom only used it when I was in trouble.— DJ
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- When i was around 4, i thought "dead" was a bad word. I also thought "Forget it" was a bad word.— forget it
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m