[P6 Science - Mutations] Acorns. That word may give you the impression of a type of nut that squirrels often pick up and eat in a live action series, or a cartoon. Acorns (or in some countries the oaknut) are, essentially, the seed of an oak tree. They're called acorns because in the past, people spelled oaks as "acs" in Þe Olde English. When you refer to acorns, you're referring to the corn of the ac trees; thus, ac-corns. Later on, we realised that simplifying the words by