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It seems, from my informal poll, and a bit of research, that my initial opinion that “pull” or “draw” in the context of beer is a dialect choice. In the previous entry, I quoted a bit from an R. B. Parker novel that used “draw” to refer to obtaining draft beer from a tap.

I note that “pull” seems to be preferred in British use, and “draw” in American, though that is not, of course, universal. For the curious, I note that in the 1984 novel Dancing Nightly in the Tavern by Canadian author Mark Anthony Jarman “pull” is even applied to non-beer beverages:

A local saunters in and the waitress pulls him a diet Pepsi before the man has spoken.

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