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In old fairy tales, the protagonists were sometimes referred to this way: the king, the princess, the miller's son. But there was only one of each, so it was okay to leave them lowercase. If ther...
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2019-12-13T12:00:30Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T04:25:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/18091 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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In old fairy tales, the protagonists were sometimes referred to this way: the king, the princess, the miller's son. But there was only one of each, so it was okay to leave them lowercase. If there might be the slightest confusion about _which_ grocer, officer, etc. is being discussed, you should capitalize them. If there is only ever one grocer in the story, you're probably okay to leave it lowercase.
#1: Imported from external source
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2015-07-08T20:48:05Z (over 9 years ago)
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