But when can they have the SAME meaning?
But when can they have the SAME meaning?
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However it always confuses me that railway lines to London are "Up" even when they are going "down" to London.
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You are right!
An old name for a small hill on Old English sounded something like "church". So a local hill was called Church. Then church came to mean what it means now, so the locals renamed it to Church Down, down being used in the way The Downs are used. So climbing the hill was up the down. Over the years that caused confusion, so the hill is now referred to as Churchdown Hill (literally Hill Hill Hill).
brisket, if you have the time, can you do another one of your quizzes please? Same request to you hoochie.
Hill is smallest and least steep, mountain is tallest and steepest.
In the UK, a hill is less than 1000 feet above sea level and a mountain is 1000 feet or more. This formed the story shown in the film The English Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.
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 UPthe 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, soâĶâĶâĶâĶ Time to shut UPâĶ..!
Lal you deserve a round of applause for that
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Ety...4/Sit-versus-sit.htm