Just wondering........?

Question

Why do apple trees have apples, grape vines have grapes, orange trees have oranges, nut trees have nuts, ect........but oak trees have ACORNS??

Answer 1

For the same reason we drive on a parkway but park on the driveway! ;)

Maybe "acorns" is a corruption of "Oak-corns." Over hundreds of years, words evolve, change form, and become something completely different than originally intended. That's why stuff from Chaucer to anything written around Geo. Washington's time is hard to read and/or understand.

Answer 2

because that the way the ancient people who made english kept its name:D