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Subject: [OM] O.K. Grammarians... Here's what's UP.
From: "Rick Beckrich" <ribec@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:32:11 +0100
   [quote]
   > Subject: THIS IS SOOOOOOO CLEVER...!
   >
   > It´s been
   > around already but it´s always fun checking this
   > up:
   >
   > PHENOMENAL 2
   >
   > LETTER WORD
   >
   >
   > I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew one word
   > in English language that can be a noun, verb, adj, adv,
   > prep.
   >
   > UP
   >
   > Read until the end ... You'll laugh.
   >
   >
   > This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other
   two-letter
   > word, and that word is UP .'
   > It is listed in the dictionary 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 officers UP for election (if there is a tie, it
   > is a toss UP ) and why is it UP
   > to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our
   > friends,
   >
   > brighten UP a room,
   > polish UP the
   > silver, warm UP the leftovers and
   > clean UP the
   > kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UPthe old
   > car.
   >
   >
   > At other times, this 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
   > blocked 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
   UP 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
   > ( UP to)
   > 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 soaks
   UP the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry UP .
   > One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP ,
   > for now . . . My time is UP !
   >
   > Oh .
   > .
   > . One more thing: What is the first thing you do in
   > the morning and the last thing you do at night?
   >
   > U P !
   >
   > Did that one
   > crack you UP ?
   >
   > Don't screw UP .. Send this on to
   > everyone you look UP in your address book . . . Or
   > not . . it's UP to you.
   >
   >
   > Now I'll
   > shut UP !
   > --

   Quoted from the UHH site
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