English is a funny language - Final Part
After two solid proofs here and here, I am sure you agree that English is a very funny language.
Now in this last part, I want to show you 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
Now it's UP to you what you do with this post. Hope you will share....

