I used to believe…
That people became mute because they said too many bad words
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to think you had to get special permission from your parents to use curse words— zeitgeist