You
lovers of the English language might enjoy this
There is a
two-letter word that perhaps has
more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's
easy to understand
UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when
we awaken in the morning, why do we wake
UP?
At a meeting, why
does a topic come
UP?
Why do we
speak
UP and why are the
officers
UP for election and why
is it
UP to the
secretary to
write
UP a report
We
call
UP our
friends.
And we
use it to brighten
UP a room,
polish
UP the silver, we
warm
UP the leftovers and
clean
UP the
kitchen.
We
lock
UP the house and some
guys fix
UP the old
car.
At
other times the little word has real special meaning.
People
stir
UP trouble,
line
UP for tickets,
work
UP an appetite, and
think
UP
excuses.
To be dressed is one
thing but to be dressed
UP is
special.
And
this
UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened
UP because it is
stopped
UP.
We
open
UP a store in the
morning but we close it
UP at
night.
We
seem to be pretty mixed
UP
about
UP!
To be knowledgeable
about the proper uses of
UP, look the word
UP in the
dictionary.
In a desk-sized
dictionary, it takes
UP almost 1/4th of the
page and can add
UP to about thirty
definitions.
If you
are
UP to it, you might
try building UP a list of the many
ways
UP is
used.
It will
take
UP a lot of your time,
but if you don't give
UP, you may
wind
UP with a hundred
or more.
When it threatens to
rain, we say it is clouding
UP.
When the sun comes
out we say it is clearing
UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes
things UP.
When
it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry
UP.
One
could go on and on, but I'll wrap it
UP, for now my time
is
UP, so............
Time to shut
UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What
is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at
night? U-P
