Know Your English: A throwback to the good times – The Hindu (Apr 09, 2018)
Which is correct — ‘nook and cranny’ or ‘nook and corner’? (Narayanan, Bengaluru)
In India, quite a few people tend to say ‘nook and corner’; native speakers of English, however, say ‘every nook and cranny’. Standard dictionaries label ‘nook and corner’ as Indianism.
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