UP WORD PLAY

~ author unkown

(Lovers of the English language might enjoy
this.....How do non-natives ever learn all the nuances of
English???)

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more
meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word 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 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 doesn't 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