A Pun For You

**fuzzidrawers** · 03-20-2009, 02:29 AM

Ok, here's one for the books. Look at this email very carefully. You'll
enjoy it, trust me.

Chuck, Vander, Caylin and conga
Live life to it's fullest and push the envelope to the edge.

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For those of you who love language and word usage, enjoy reading this one.

"up"

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 officersUP 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,
hings dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it
UP , for now ........my time is UP!