What's Up?
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning 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 waken 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 bright-en 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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word
in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost
1/4th the page and definitions add UP to about thirty.
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 UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for
a while, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time
is UP, so.............I'll shut UP.
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