These 15 Commonly-Used Words Have the Weirdest and Most Fascinating Origins

If you've ever sat through an English class or a grammar lesson, you know that the English language is weird. It's full of words you're definitely pronouncing wrong or constantly misusing — or else words that have the weirdest, strangest origins behind them. In fact, a lot of the words that we use everyday have the most fascinating etymologies — but the truth is that we rarely ever think about how they originally came to be. Like, has anyone ever thought about where the word "muscle" comes from? Or even the word "sandwich"? Or how about the weird fact about the word "nice" originally used to mean "ignorant"?

If you need more convincing that English is actually a stranger language than you think, here are 18 of the most commonly used words in the modern English language that have the most surprising origins and histories behind them, including words inspired by Greek mythology and words that stem from the most fascinating folklores throughout history.