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    embarrassed to admit i never bothered to learn what a "partition" was until beyoncé told me to



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    2. a22x2 on

      I’m not sure if Real Housewives count as celebrities to the general public, but Whitney Rose on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is the reason I know what a stantion* is

      * it’s the little brass poles with a base that hold up the velvet rope

    6. acozyaliensuperstar on

      “Such **fol-de-rol** and fiddle-dee of course’s” from Cinderella!

      Folderol means nonsense, and I’ve used this word religiously since I was 12 ✨

    8. LezbianaGrande on

      ![gif](giphy|QL2SiQINDXtp6)

      Hateration, holleration, and percolating thanks to Mary J. Blige.

    10. beautyanddelusion on

      I learn about most rich people things from rap music. It’s how I learned what Margiela pants are, what a Maybach is, etc.

    12. Emergency_Draft_2515 on

      I originally learned what centrifugal motion is after listening to This Kiss by Faith Hill lol

    14. EatMorePieDrinkMore on

      A generation learned that SCUBA stands for “self contained underwater breathing apparatus” from Family Ties.

    16. TheRavenSeven on

      “But *inevitably*, you’ll be back again” – 15-year-old me will always thank Mariah Carey for being a walking thesaurus. 

    17. PeaUpbeat3732 on

      “I’m especially good at expectorating”

      …y’all he said that and then he spat on the floor. I didn’t get the connection until I was like 30 years old. And now, I no longer spit. I *expectorate*.

      ![gif](giphy|v0usU9mgq1ZyU)

    19. constantchaosclay on

      Basically every single pronunciation of major brands was learned from Bey or Mother Monster.

      My broke ass was Give-en-chay with the same rhythm of “give em hell” until I was reading lyrics while listening and realized how very wrong I was.

    20. ImpressiveFan7446 on

      amalgamation — because Blake lively wouldn’t stop saying it in the IEWU press junkets

    22. Own-Animator-7526 on

      Bootylicious — Destiny’s Child

      Pompatus (of love) — Steve Miller Band

    23. nutmegtell on

      I learned this French sentence from Lady Marmalade. I said it once to a French friend of mine and she blushed so hard and told me to never say it again lol.

      “*Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir*?”

    24. somuchsong on

      I learnt what a Sheela na gig was due to the PJ Harvey song of the same name.

    30. aphorat on

      not a celebrity I was in kindergarten when my mom read me A Wrinkle in Time and it was hard in 1995 to try and figure out what a tesseract was

    32. Hungry-Cellist1736 on

      COMMISERATING!

      Another one: vividly emblazoned (I may or may not have used this in my essay)