I found this amazingly perplexing.. I hope I've done nothing to disuade you from being adamant. Second thought, "adamant" may not a a good chcoice of word on my part as it presents a negative cannotation. If it's

I wonder how common this is. I don't use 'up' much, but when I do, it has the full conjugation: ups, upped. I have heard such inflexions, but I think they are more recent than the bare "up". A 19th-century comic song has

A few additional notes: Christian S.-W. wrote on 14 May 2004: 1.) How are you? Thank you, very fine. Here guess ... there a rule that "very" can't be used with "fine"? I'd say it was the word order. It should be

I'm familiar only with "can of worms". "Bag of worms" suggests "bagworms", which the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary on line defines ... plant debris; especially : one ( Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis ) often