A RIFF ON UP
What’s up, Doc? Up. That’s what’s up. That’s what I’m up to, a brief write-up on up. I hope I’m up to it, and I hope you can put up with it.
Up is such a little word—only two letters. Yet it has, perhaps, more meanings than any other two-letter word in our very complex and wacky language. It’s easy enough if you’ve grown up with English, but for those who haven’t—well, I guess, they just have to suck it up…or not. It’s up to them.
It certainly can’t be easy, though, for them to comprehend that one can understand