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Doesn't that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)
(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it'd be ambiguous.)
"middle bit"?
Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel
Wrong word. Actually, yes.
Oops. I failed to read that properly.