Word of the Day with Will Abeles

Here to help us expand our vocabulary is comedian, actor, and recent Nashville transplant Will Abeles. Will is now based out of Nashville, formerly of Brooklyn (with a brief year in his hometown of Hagerstown, MD for a little thing called 2020). He was voted the third-best comic in Nashville by the Nashville Scene magazine’s “Best of 2021” behind Nate Bargatze. In January of 2020, Will left New York for a self-produced national tour to Los Angeles and back, leading up to his second album recording at Empire Comedy Club in Portland, ME. Unfortunately, Will got as far as Indianapolis on his return trip in March before the tour and album were canceled. But having been known to “zig when everyone else zags,’ Will teamed up with Dewey Comedy Productions and recorded his second album in May of 2020 over Zoom. The album, titled “The Pride of Hagerstown: The Tall Tales and Tragic Truths of Will Abeles” is available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp for purchase now. Will is also the co-host along with Drew Harrison of the “My Funny Friends” podcast, a stand-up comedy origin story podcast where they interview fellow veteran comedians about their upbringing and journey through stand-up.

Follow him on Instagram: @WillAbeles

Today’s word of the day is “meritorious“, which means deserving of honor or esteem.

Did you know: People who demonstrate meritorious behavior certainly "earn" our respect, and you can use that fact to remember that meritorious comes from the Latin verb merēre, which means "to earn." Nowadays, the rewards earned for meritorious acts are likely to be of an immaterial nature: gratitude, admiration, praise, etc. But that wasn't always so. The history of meritorious recalls a reward more concrete in nature: money. In Latin, meritorious literally means "bringing in money."

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