by Stephen Graham <graham1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 31, 2008 at 08:18 PM
Kuba wrote:
> Hi, I'm translating a biographical note about Samuel Beal and I'm stuck
> with word "Sybile". The text goes:
>
> "After some time had passed, he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy. He
> was on the Sybile during the China War of 1856-58."
>
> The word "Sybile" is italic. Do you know what the Sybile is? Is it a
> ****p maybe?
It's presumably a ****p of the Royal Navy. Standard convention is to
italicize ****p names in written material.
