FAQ Q. Shouldn't there be an apostrophe in the title of Taylor Swift's forthcoming album The Tortured Poets Department? A. No. - ThreadSky

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bcdreyer.social • 391 days ago

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Q. Shouldn't there be an apostrophe in the title of Taylor Swift's forthcoming album The Tortured Poets Department?

A. No.

Thank you, sir. 🥰

I keep having this conversation. It's not the English's Department or the History's Department. Why does everyone think it should be Poet's?

Maybe it’s just the Poets Department, but it’s being tortured by the central administration with budget cuts and the like.

For the record, I think folks were suggesting it should be Poets'.

Those people are also wrong.

Fair enough. Whether it was Poet's or Poet's doesn't undermine my point though.

Correct X 2

They are. As for album titles that are bad (or stupid), I never understood how Oasis came up with "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants."

It’s the farmers market principle at work

Only if there is one autocratic poet.

Only if they’re tortur’d

Lifes Rich Pageant would like a word

As long as there's more than one of them and somebody else owns it.

The Department of Tortured Poets.
Still no.

But the compound adjective should be hyphenated

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