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I didn't write any of this except the headline. Someone sent me this fascinating discussion on the word “up.”

An amazing two-letter English word.

A reminder that one word in the English language can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition.

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...