jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

"Up" is probably the best bargain in English words because it has so many uses.

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You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a word that 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 UP almost one fourth 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 UP the earth.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so............
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

James Slick Loc: Pittsburgh,PA

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

She got knocked up because she messed up and didn't up her birth control prescription.

Angel Star Photography Loc: Tacoma, WA

Quite a nice way to lift up such a little word...))) It has caused me to ponder whether we could as much for the opposite, four-letter word, "down"? We get down to business. When we go to visit someone, depending on their relative location to us, we can say we will go down to visit and more. I guess I will need to sit down and write some thoughts down to be certain I am down with the word.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Same goes pretty much for every language!

junglejim1949 Loc: Sacramento,CA

I was really UP for this one... thanks!

Terry

Outstanding

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

And "up" yours, another use!

retiredsgt Loc: Red Lion Pa.

No wonder Amazon banned you !
Thanks for the laugh.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

"Down" as a universal indicator of relative location can problematic. In St. Louis, if you decide to go to a Mizzou football game you go "down" to Columbia, even though it's west and slightly north of here, and at a higher elevation. It would also be "up"river if it were closer to the Missouri. Just sayin'. ;-)

jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

Jack

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

I've just looked it up in my on-line dictionary, and I've found that you've just hit a bit around the edges of the word. It goes on and on. What I saw would take up many pages of a desk dictionary.

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

I've just looked it up in my on-line dictionary, and I've found that you've just hit a bit around the edges of the word. It goes on and on. What I saw would take up many pages of a desk dictionary.