Comedian starts to spell out the big ‘Cwtsh’ debate
It’s not every day that Ammanford comedian Phil Evans feels as if he’s on the losing end of a joke. But he’s spent the last couple of weeks spelling it out to his fans and explaining why he’s now having to see the funny side of Swansea Bay’s City of Culture bid. The City of Culture bid carries the slogan ‘Cwtch The Bid’. And in the eyes of Evans, his fans and many students of the Welsh language, the slogan has a glaring spelling mistake – ‘Cwtch’ should be spelt ‘Cwtsh’. The comic who puts the ‘Cwtsh’ into comedy sparked an internet debate on the use of the word last year. “I thought that I’d said enough about the correct spelling of ‘cwtsh’ last year, but plainly the boys in the Swansea Bay City of Culture bid are coming back for more!” chuckled Evans. “It’s a question as big as ‘To be, or not to be? in Wales: should the favourite Welsh word for a hug be a ‘Cwtsh’ or a ‘Cwtch?’ – that is the question.” Evans, who is often billed as the resident ‘Hug-meister’ of Wales, is convinced t...