When I started middle school, I heard these guys calling each other "bastards." I thought they were saying "pastors." I wondered why calling someone a "pastor" would be a bad thing.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the initials NYC stood for "nobody you're calling" Anon
- From the Carpenters hit I always sang "calling octopus of interplanetary craft" instead of "occupants".— Paul
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex