On Jun 3, 6:40*pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> Andy wrote:
> > So what else about Kansas City?
>
> > We road tripped to Kearney to Jessie Jame's home where he was born and
> > raised.
>
> > Also stopped at Watkins Woolen Mill in Kearney.
>
> > We then road tripped to Independence and visited the Truman Home,
> > Courthouse, where I got to pick up Harry S. Truman's courtroom phone. I
> > also stabbed at a cash register just outside the courtroom where (I guess)
> > bail could be set at $999.99. But when I pulled the handle and it rang and
> > the draw opened there was no money!
>
> Colloquialism Sensors are fweep-fweeping at "the draw". *
>
> My grandmother (b. 1894) used to use "draw" for "drawer". *She was raised
> in the upper US midwest; she didn't have much schooling.
>
> --
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Norm Abrams of The New Yankee Workshop always says "draw." It drives
me crazy. I thought it was a New England thing. Me and my last-two-
hundred-years' worth of ancestor, college-educated and otherwise, are
firmly established in Iowa, and nobody I know from around here says
"draw."

N.