English Language Lovers

[HARDCORE]

Received this and thought you guys might like it!!!!

Mrs. H
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>>You lovers of the English language might enjoy this . . .
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>There is a two-letter word that perhaps
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>has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
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>It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
>list,
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>but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
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>At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
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>Why do we speak UP
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>and why are the officers UP for election
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>and why is it UP to the secretary
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>to write UP a report?
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>We call UP our friends.
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>And we use it to brighten UP a room,
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>polish UP the silver,
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>we warm UP the leftovers
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>and clean UP the kitchen.
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>We lock UP the house
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>and some guys fix UP the old car.
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>People stir UP trouble,
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>line UP for tickets,
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>work UP an appetite,
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>and think UP excuses.
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>To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
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>A drain must be opened UP
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>because it is stopped UP.
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>We open UP a store in the morning
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>but we close it UP at night.
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>We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
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>To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the
>dictionary.
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>In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page
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>and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
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>If you are UP to it,
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>you might try building UP a list
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>of the many ways UP is used.
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>It will take UP a lot of your time
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>but if you don't give UP,
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>you may wind UP with a hundred or more
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>When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
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>When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
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>When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
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>When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
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>One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
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>for now my time is UP,
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>so............ Time to shut UP.....!
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>Oh...one more thing:
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>What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at
>night? U-P

[Advisor]

Didn't see any mention of 'shove it UP'

[Jerry D]

then there is my favorite Biggest Two letter word "IF"

[revwardoc]

Rudyard Kipling
If

If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

[urbsdad6]

Revwardoc....Well said! Great poem!

Doc Urb

[Boats]

How about the kid's who always say "why". I must have heard that many times from my kids and now the grand kids. The young mind is always so remarkable and quick to learn new things. Humans are very interesting.

[Jerry D]

Doc, exactly