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 read UP on a story in the paper that we pick UP to find out what is Up
in the world & make UP our minds to not give UP hope that some thing good
will turn UP.
We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
silver, and 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 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, UP 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 Up to 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 my time is UP & I leave
it Up to you to step UP & Keep Up the sharing of this list that has been
made UP to lift Up your spirit, so put UP or Shut UP.
..... I give UP!
