Are you UP for this

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Subject: Fw: Are You UP For This?...

>I think you'll get a kick out of this one...I did.

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> Subject: FW: Are You UP For This?...

>

> Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another

> example of why people learning English have trouble with the language.

> Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But

> then, that's probably true of many languages.)

>

> There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings

> than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed

> in the dictionary as being used 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 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 a 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 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 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 does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.

>

> One could go on & 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

>

> Don't screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book.

>

>

> Now I'll hush up.