You lovers of the English language might enjoy this . . .

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? 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 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  UP  about  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 1/4th 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 the earth and often messes  things UP.  
When  it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry  UP.
One  could go on and 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

I'll add one thing: For the last 2 months here in Pahrump, it has been raining  UP a storm