Excerpt from History and Genealogy: Of the Stackpole Family The Normans, too, used the letter k but little. Clerk is in both Saxon and Norman Clerc. The combination of c and k as in stack, is due to the insertion of a k in such words as stacking, stacked, etc., Where without a k the sound of 8 would be given to c, coming before i and e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.