Phenomenal 2 Letter Word

[gray_marian]

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.'It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

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, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.

At other times, this 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 blocked 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 UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 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 soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . My time is UP!

Oh . . . One more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

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[John Gill]

#1- you omitted up yours.

[Lou Barron]

I have given UP a lot of things

[happy daze john in oz]

Then of course if you mix up one poli with another you are up for a lot of grief.
And if by chance you wake up the mother in law you will be up for even more of it.

[Braid Anderson]

I once travelled in a yellow UP carriage in the States.

[Louis the fly]

#1- you omitted up yours.

And to get it up.

[Red Lead Ted]

And to get it up.

Now, Now, LOU.............. As long as it gets up before you of a morning you have no worries mate, There are woman aboard

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Marian, There is a one letter word that is used more than that and its UP in your part of the world ask any Scot, A question or answer them and you will always get the reply .... { I } Terry.

[John Pruden]

if it doesn't lou GO BACK ASLEEP jp

[Fouro]

Re No 6.

Now that I'm older my slippers are black,
I huff to the store and puff my way back,
But never you laugh, I don't mind at all,
I'd rather get up puffing than not puff at all.
I do know that my youth is all up and well spent,
'Cause my get up and go has got up and went,
But in spite of it all, I'm able to grin,
As I think of the places my get up has been,
So I get up each morning and dust off my wits,
Then I open up the paper and read the Orbits,
If I'm not there, then I'll know I'm not dead,
So I'll get up first thing to eat a good breakfast,
Then I'll go back up the stairs and get back into bed.

FOURO.

[Louis the fly]

In reply to Terry.

If I were to engage in any exchange with the lovely Maid Marian, verbal or otherwise there would only be one winner. It would not be me.
A wise man knows his limitations.