Cranny hole.

[Mark Odegard]

>Now, do you ever use or see the word outside of them?

As I remember, 'cranny hole' is a part of my vocabulary; this might be a
dialectal isogloss that goes with the (now dead and gone) California use of
'Chesterfield' for 'sofa'. I think of this as a difficult-to-use chunk of
space in a building. This can include space under stairs or odd corners of
an attic. It's not really a 'crevice' a la MW; in a house, a crevice is very
small, something you clean with the vacuum cleaner's crevice tool. A cranny
is larger.

A nook tends to be useable space, as with breakfast nook, but I wonder if
anyone else gets the feeling that 'niche' overlaps. 'Wall nook' does not
sound strange; it would be an oversized niche set into the wall, often
containing cabinets or shelves: the presenting side would have to be flush
with the surrounding wall, I think.


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