# Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes

An episode of [The History of English Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/538608536), 20 Jan 2021, 55 min.

Audio: https://media.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/content.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/Ep144-Murder-of-Crows.mp3

In the second half of the 1400s, there is written evidence of word play and new word formations within English. These new terms included words for the sounds made by animals and collective nouns for various groups of animals and people. This was also a period when the Plantagenet era came to an end, and the first Tudor monarch seized the throne. In this episode, we examine those linguistic and historical developments. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 144

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