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Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes

The History of English Podcast

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Introduction

This chapter explores the fad for coining new terms for collective nouns in the mid-1400s and discusses the transition in England during this time, controversies surrounding Richard III, the Wars of the Roses, the introduction of the printing press, and the origin of the phrase 'without rhyme or reason'.

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