UP!
Good morning Daybreakers! You English language lovers might enjoy this. 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.
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 UP the
word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 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 UP definitions!
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 now........it is time for me to shut UP! And
that is the bottom of our news on this Friday, February, 2014! ###
