BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Yoda 'speaks like Anglo-Saxon':
"Star Wars character Yoda's sentence structure is similar to old Anglo-Saxon, a linguistics expert has said.
Author David Crystal also says a number of characters in the Lord of the Rings are excellent examples of non-standard English for children to study.
In his book The Stories of English, the academic even discusses the effect on pronunciation of the BBC and on vocabulary by the Sun.
He said he wanted to attack purists who would not tolerate non-standard English
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Mr Crystal, a professor of linguistics at Reading University for 20 years, said Yoda - a Jedi master in the Star Wars films - was a good way to get children interested in how preferences in English word order changed from the Anglo-Saxon era to that of Middle English."
