swearing

I used to "invent" my own expressions and insults so I woudn't get in trouble for swearing. I once called a kid at school a 'Wild Shamrock' and I would say "What the peas?" to express confusion or "Oh, Tetris!" to express frustration or disgust.

Will

I used to think gay was a very bad curse word. Then one day I read a book that said it(meaning happy of course) and I told my sister and she played along with me and told me that was the most inappropriate picture book there ever was.
I still don't like to say gay, even though it isn't a curse word.

WolfyGirl

My mom sewed lots of my clothes and the sewing machine didn't always cooperate. She called the bobbin "a bitch". Needless to say I gave my 4-H leader quite a surprise when I correcteed her!

Anon

My dad doesn't swear in front of us - will still take me to task for saying "damn". When I was little and he got mad at other drivers, he'd pound the steering wheel and say "idiot, idiot, idiot!". so of course I thought it was a terrible swear word.

Anon

When I was very little, about two or three, I was in a home day care. The lady who owned it had her kids help out a bit. Their son, Justin, who was twelve at the time was playing with me once and he was probably teaching me new words. He taught me the word ''truck'' except in the form of ''the F word''.
Well, one day when my parents were driving me home from day care, I saw a truck and started yelling the F word repeatedly, pointing to a truck. My parents were quite sure sneaky Justin had taught me that. He's done goofy things like that before, like putting pom poms in a certain place on a Halloween skeleton at seven.
We met him a few years ago. He was in his twenties. My dad told him this story and he was beet red!

Anon

When I was a child, I overheard my second eldest brother and his friends saying that when they were children, they knew all of the swear words except the long one beginning with "m." For some reason, I thought the elusive "m" word must have been "Makker." I never dared use this word and was shocked when I heard that it can short for "Malcolm." I then decided I must be wrong and was puzzled until discovering the word was in fact "mother******."

Anon

one day in second grade my class was listening to the announcements. some music came on and i said this is funky music. a girl said ooooh he said the f word. i started crying and thought that was the f word until a friend told me it in third grade

BE13

My cousin thought buddy was a bad word.

Janet

In second grade, my friend had told me to say "luck" in the name game. I, of course, then ended up saying the "f" word. She then tattled on me and got me in trouble, and I had no idea what that word was or why it was bad until a few years later.

Kala

I was horrified, yet amused when I was walking through town one day with my 7 year old cousin. We walked past the French Connection UK shop, and she suddenly declared at the top of her lungs, 'Mummy said never to say fuck because it's naughty, so why does the shop have it in the window?'

Of course she was talking about the abbreviation 'FCUK'

Bless her!

Emilié

When I was young, I was told never to swear. So for a long time afterward, I got very offended when I heard someone say "I swear..."

C.

When I was at primary school I thought you had to be at least 18 to swear.

Mike W

I used to think that idiot was a swear word.

Amy Szymanski

i used to believe that the f word was "funk"!!!

Anon

When i was in 3rd or 4th grade, my friends and i used to play hide and seek tag at lunch. One day my friend and i had hidden by the bike racks which we werent supposed to go by. 2 1st graders came up, "ooooo you're not supposed to be down there!" one said. "oh shut up." i said as we bagan to walk away. "o0o0o0o0o you said a bad word! o0o0o im telling!" she sneered. My friend and i almost died laughing.

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