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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,
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,
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.
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 a UP list,
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 awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on,
Fess UP...you like this!
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is 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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