What did you think when Taylor Swift announced that her new album would be called The Tortured Poets Department?
Maybe it was: "I'd rather listen toMetallica or Baby Shark."
It could have been: Shouldn't there be an apostrophe in that title?
After hearing the biggest music announcement of the year, a lot of people started thinking about diacritical marks and started talking about them on social media. A professor in the department of English, theater, film and media at the University of Manitoba wrote on X that he ruined the album release for his students by teaching them about apostrophe usage.