PHENOMENAL 2 LETTER   WORD

         THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO   CLEVER!

  I’m     sure you will enjoy this.   I never knew one   word in   English language that can be a   noun, verb, adj, adv,     prep.        UP    

Read until   the end … You’ll laugh.    

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 (if there is   a tie, it is a   toss    UP) 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 (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 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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Did that one crack you  UP?

Now I’ll shut  UP!