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human
ELI5: Why does "I'm on my way home" sound fine, but "I'm on my way work" sound weird?

and vice versa - "I'm on my way to work" sounds fine, but "I'm on my way to home" sounds weird.
gpt
Because the adverb home (go home, be home) is derived from a germanic word in the accusative case (a grammatical thing that says the word is your goal or intended destination). The noun work meaning the location at which one works is simply a zero derivation from the verb work (like school the place was taken from school the action).

Like you're five: The word home originally meant "to home" or "at home" in old German, and we didn't translate it very well. The word work is just a short way of saying "the place where I/you work."