It's Spelt: C E N T R E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am English as well and unless you are speaking about a building, you are spelling it wrong. You are not right, but from your user name I am sure you are just one of those people that just thrive on trying to piss people off. Not that I give a rats ass either way. I do have paperback editing to my credit though. Mind you it is from years ago, before you could read...hmm, I guess by that logic it makes it sound like I could have done it as recent as last week!

2008 merriam-webster words include:

And then there's "mondegreen." In a category of its own, it describes words mistaken for other words. A mondegreen most often comes from misunderstood phrases or lyrics.

It comes from an old Scottish ballad in which the lyric "laid him on the green" has been confused over time with "Lady Mondegreen."

Among the best-known modern examples: "There's a bathroom on the right" in place of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise" and "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" in place of "kiss the sky" in the 1967 Jimi Hendrix classic "Purple Haze."

Even Sokolowski, a word expert by trade, has a favorite mondegreen: "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," as sung by the Beatles in 1967, made obvious sense to the preteen Peanuts comic fan as "Lucy in the sky with Linus."

Merriam-Webster's editors were so amused by the mondegreen concept that they plan to ask people to submit their favorites on the publishing company's Web site.

Mondegreen, first spotted in print in 1954, was among tens of thousands of words the wordsmiths watched for decades. That and others make the cut for the dictionary based on how widely they are used in publications ranging from newspapers to technical manuals.

"...and the doors will open. Just like on Star Trek."'

No, you had it right the first time; 'hands'.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/handes
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handes
Good try, though. Kudos.
*or is it 'coudose'?

I have no idea what is compelling me to join this inane post, but here I go anyways. Here is a brief encapsulation of what wikipedia (yes, yes) has to say on the subject:

In the early 18th century, English spelling was not standardized. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Current British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Many of the now characteristic American English spellings were introduced, although for the most part not created, by Noah Webster in his An American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828.

Webster was a strong proponent of spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic.

Among the advocates of spelling reform in England, the influences of those who preferred the Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings of certain words proved decisive. Subsequent spelling adjustments in the UK had little effect on present-day US spelling, and vice versa. While in many cases American English deviated in the 19th century from mainstream British spelling, on the other hand it has also often retained older forms.

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Many of the differences can be tied to the French language. The standardized (ised) American spelling reforms took out the French spelling influences and made words more phonetically agreeable with the English pronounciations. British spelling reforms stuck with the traditional spellings that had been introduced by the French influence on the language since 1066.

This only goes to prove that language is completely arbitrary and has a life of its own. Just be happy that we can talk to one another.

Back to the fray.

My theory is that the producers are cleverly playing on the fact that the film is not a direct adaptation of the book, but an American adventure in which the book itself still exists!







Or they couldn't be bothered to change it for international English-speaking releases.
One or the other! ;-)