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 UPalmost

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.

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........it is 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? U-P

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