Thanks for posting the list of transition words! I needed to read that.
Hey, don't they teach English grammar any more? When I was at school in the UK in the 50s and 60s we were tested on our ability to write properly punctuate English, and to be able to describe what is happening in a passage of prose both at the age of 11 (in order to get into grammar school) and then again at 16 and, for scientists, 17 (i.e.. for UK dudes 11+, GCE O level, GCE Use of English). You had to pass all these exams to progress. Once I started to write scientific pieces, I was given a book by my boss, on the proper way to write English to make it understandable to all readers, as well as allowing them to repeat your experience. Some of my papers are now appearing on the internet, so that's another sort of fame, which is a bit more universal than Lush.
Thanks for posting this information though. Could I also suggest Fowler's "Proper English Usage" and Roget's Thesaurus, which are both still in print, and two other books which you might find in a second hand book shop - Chosen Words by Ivor Brown (Penguin 1967), and History of the Engliush Language by Lincoln Barnett (Sphere books 1966).
My worst nightmare however is the Apple predictive text app., which changes words as I type (for example it just replaced 'changes' with 'canoes')
