muscle

When you look at a mouse does the word
muscle come to your mind?
Surprisingly, the word muscle comes from mouse.

Very likely the Roman soldiers took the word musculus with them when they invaded England before the birth of Christ.

If you flex your arm or leg muscle and watch the tissues under your skin dance back and forth, you may see how the people of long ago connected the idea of a scampering mouse with the idea of the moving muscle.

The ancient people in England shortened musculus to mus - their word for mouse. Over hundreds of years, the word muscle came to be used to talk about the tissues moving under the skin.      Say muscle, mus'l. 

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