Re: USAGE: The four shits in English

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Doug Ball wrote:

> the Concise Compendium of the World's Languages by George Campbell, a book
> that doubtlessly many of you have heard of.
I looked this up on amazon and noticed that the $33, 600-page paperback
version is considered a digest of the $110 hardback version, including
that the paperback version contains references to languages covered only
in the hardback version.  Does anybody know if the $110 version is worth
it?  Does anyone know the relative numbers of languages covered in the two
books?

Thanks,
Amanda