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 ÂÂ
Read until the end … You’ll laugh. ÂÂ
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]. ÂÂ
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!
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