2 Letter Word with 100 Meanings

[homeinspec]

So a 2 letter word has a hundred completely different meanings. So what is this stuff about English being easy?


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 comeUP? 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 callUP 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 stirUP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressedUP is special.

And thisUP is confusing:

A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP.

We openUP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixedUP about UP!

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

If you areUP 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 wetsUP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap itUP,
for now my time is UP, so.............


I'll shutUP

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Originally Posted by homeinspec

So a 2 letter word has a hundred completely different meanings. So what is this stuff about English being easy?


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 comeUP? 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 callUP 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 stirUP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressedUP is special.

And thisUP is confusing:

A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP.

We openUP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixedUP about UP!

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

If you areUP 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 wetsUP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap itUP,
for now my time is UP, so.............


I'll shutUP

Good One Homeinspec,lol