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My father was stationed at Chicksands, a joint RAF/USAF facility in Bedfordshire, from 1951 to '54. When he mentioned to an RAF colleague that he was going to the city of Bedford for
some business, he was taken aback by the reply, "While you're there you should knock my sister up." Of course the Englishman meant he should knock on her door, not impregnate
her. Another Briticism that mystifies me - none of my Brit friends have been able to explain it - is to say of someone who died, "Gone for a Burton." Does any one know the origin
of this?
