Whats Up
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Minodora TrascaWhats Up
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Minodora TrascaWhat's up, Doc?
There is 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? t a meeting, why does a topi! !ome UP?
"hy do we speak UP and why are the offi!ers UP for ele!tion and why is it UP to the
se!retary to write UP a report?
"e !all UP our friends. nd we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the sil#er$ we
warm UP the lefto#ers and !lean UP the kit!hen. "e lo!k UP the house and some guys
fi% UP the old !ar. t other times the little word has real spe!ial meaning. People stir UP
trouble, line UP for ti!kets, work UP an appetite, and think UP e%!uses. To be dressed is
one thing but to be dressed UP is spe!ial.
nd this UP is !onfusing& drain must be opened UP be!ause it is stopped UP. "e open
UP a store in the morning but we !lose it UP at night.
"e seem to be pretty mi%ed UP about UP' To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of
UP, look the word UP in the di!tionary. In a desk-si(ed di!tionary, it takes UP almost
)*+th of the page and !an 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 gi#e UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. "hen it
threatens to rain, we say it is !louding UP. "hen the sun !omes out we say it is !learing
UP.
"hen it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
"hen it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.
,ne !ould go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so......... Time to shut
UP.....'
