[NIFL-ESL:10326] FW: [rsct] Word games with 'up'

elsa.auerbach@umb.edu

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:51:08 -0400 (EDT)
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What's up with this little word "up"?

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From: Raging Grannie (Wanda Ballentine) <wsb2001@adelphia.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:55:10 -0400
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Subject: [rsct] Word games with 'up'

Ever stop to think about UP?

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning 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 waken 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.

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 of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost 1/4th the page and
definitions add UP to about thirty.

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 and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............

I'll shut UP.....! 

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