India, June 20 -- Million-dollar lawsuits have been lost because of a missing comma, so we know how expensive a typo can be.

A missing Oxford comma, in a 2017 suit against Oakhurst Dairy in Maine, caused enough ambiguity about overtime pay to result in a $5 million settlement in favour of delivery drivers, and that isn't the only such case.

People have gone to prison over a typo.

In 1631, the English printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas omitted a three-letter word from a book. It cost them their licence and a £300 fine, a sum so crippling at the time that Barker spent the rest of his life in a debtor's prison.

The book was a version of the Bible commissioned by King Charles I. It was nicknamed Wicked Bible after the printing e...