Due to the overwhelming love I feel for you guys (coupled with a burning guilt for not putting up more of these), I present you with another Email from Grandpa!....



"Lovers of the English language might enjoy
this. It is yet another example of why people learning
English have trouble with the language. Learning the
nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then,
that's probably true of many languages.)
There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps
has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that
word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as
being used 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 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 a 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 UPabout UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP ,
look 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 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 does not rain for
awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now ........my time is UP, so time to shut UP!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning &
the last thing you do at night?

U P