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This week I have hot news about Taylor Swift and an apostrophe.

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For me, the Grammys were all about Tracy Chapman.

I've watched Fast Car videos old and new over and over this week, but if your mother has ever

corrected your grammar, you might also appreciate that Taylor Swift, or Mother, as she's known to many of her fans, lined us up for a grammar lesson at the

Grammys when she announced the title of her next album, The Tortured Poets Department, and it became clear that she gasp didn't include an

apostrophe in the word poets. It's the farmers market and writers Strike Problem all over again, and the New York Times actually contacted me for a comment.

So I thought I'd expand here on what I told them, since they definitely aren't going to publish my long multi-paragraph commentary.

First, Taylor Swift is following in the fine tradition of the movie Dead Poets Society, which also didn't have an apostrophe.

The reason people wonder if phrases like this should have an apostrophe is that they kind of look possessive. They remind us of possessives.

For example, if two poets forgot their umbrellas when they left a coffee shop, the barista

might say, oh, those are the poet's umbrellas.

And that is clearly possessive, poets with an apostrophe at the end, because the two poets own the umbrellas. So when you see a name or a

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