Quote Chris Dalton="Chris Dalton"This is what I cannot get my head around. It clearly isn't difficult to spot, so either it hasn't been checked by that many people (how many employees do you think York Knights have?) or nobody was looking for the right things.
A lot of us have to submit well worded letters in every day life be it a CV or a letter to a managing director. I refuse to believe it is THAT difficult to spot a spelling mistake.'"
It IS really easy though, and sometimes it's so obvious that no-one can see it.
As an example, in the course of my work I had to design an A1 size poster incorporating a number of large images for public display. I had already printed a number of copies for approval, all of which were passed. The poster had six photos on it plus some explanatory text. It wasn't until the next day, when I looked at printing and distributing the poster, that I realised that there were only five different photos- i.e. one of the photos appeared twice.
As a test I showed the poster to at least 10 colleagues asking if they could spot the error. Only one saw it within 5 minutes. The rest were totally gobsmacked when I showed them what they simply couldn't see.
Like Vastman said - hidden in plain sight.