swearing

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.

blonde

I thought there was NO difference between heck and, well, that Other Word, heheh, (don't want to mention it on this site) and so I' always like, What the h---!!!!!!!!!

mooga looga!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) cheesey name, i kno!

i use to belive that if you swear then youll die in a riot!im a dumbass

caleb

A young friend believed that the word dummy was a swear word. I used dummy to describe a puppet and was scolded by the girl. "My teacher said that was a bad word!"
It was fine by my use of the word.

Anon

I used to believe that the meaning of term "screw you" was "forget you" (or something like that) because, often when people are frustrated, they'll say "screw this!"

As a child, I had just broken up with my "first boyfriend." My "friend" liked him and was talking relentlessly about him one day. I soon became annoyed with this (my wounds still fresh) and responded to her: "Well, just screw him! I don't care anymore!"

She obviously knew the exact meaning of "screw" because she never talked to me again.

Arcana

for some reason, i distinctly remember the first time i heard the words "shit" and "fuck". i was sitting in the doctors' surgery with my mum and best friend, aged about 5 or 6 (i'm guessing). anyway, my best friend was repeating these words and i asked if i could have one. i rather liked the sound of "fuck", thinking it just sounded nice and round and squidgy as a word. i adopted this word and it was only later that i learned it's true meaning. I was disappointed to find out that my lovely word meant something so "rude" and "naughty".

Sophie

when i was six i called my tehcer a fucker: i thought it meant a mean person

bobjoe

My parents were fairly tollerant about me watching TV programmes for a slightly older audience. My brother got me addicted to South Park at around age 8. My brother always told me, "NEVER repeat the words you hear on South Park or mum and dad will abandon you." I haven't sworn since, and frequently tell people not to do so, even though I am fully aware that my parents aren't so heartless.

Kat

when i was very young and learning to talk, i just repeated everything people said around me. My parents were usually pretty careful about what they said when i was present, but once we were in the car and someone cut in front of us or something, and my dad said "Oh, damn it!" And then of course my mum and dad could hear from the back seat "Damn it! Damn it!"

To this day, whenever i am at a family gathering with my parent and someone says damn, they just HAVE to tell the story.

you just have no idea how embaressing...

junior sweargirl

Me and my friend used to play games when we were about 8, in the playground at school. one day he said "ok i'll be asterix and you can be bollocks" so that night i told my mother that we'd been playing and i was bollocks. When she asked where i heard that word i told her i didn't know...

monsieur moose

when i was about nine i thought the words 'twat' and 'twit' were synonymous. i learned better when dining with my family at a (nice) restaurant and i called a loud kid at another table a twat.

tony

when my younger brother got to the 'swearing' age i told him 'chuff' was a swear word. he's still not to sure if it is or not, oh well it's funny coz none of his sentences make sense, coz in the middle of a sentence he'll say chuffing!

evil older sister