TRANSITION

The act of making a transition. My English teacher hates when I use transition as a verb, so now it is. [It was, anyway. Refer your English teacher to Fowler's _Modern English Usage_: It is an ancient and valuable right of the English-speaking people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. I can't locate my copy, but that's almost a quote from the entry at contact. What we need in our schools is more teachers and fewer pedants. We also need math teachers who do *not* tell their pupils, There's no such thing as minus zero. For every number a, there's a number -a such that a + (-a) = 0. If a is assigned the value zero, then -a is minus zero. Enough said.] Example: I am going to transition well in my next English paper.