Is crwth a real word? Yes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip informed us that:

 

“ ’Crwth’ is a valid Scrabble word.”

 

I assumed Stephan Pastis must be kidding, but then I looked it up. Yes, it indeed is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and there also is a Wikipedia page. As shown above in a drawing, it is a stringed instrument. The absence of vowels is due to its Welsh origin.