: Re: Capitalizing generic names I have a story with several characters. I've decided that I won't give them names, but refer to them as their titles. For example, the grocer. The cleaner.

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.

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