OT funny little read
You lovers of the English language will enjoy this . .
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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 .
QBID is not 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?
Yep, U-P
One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything
