"Celebrating Ohio's and America's 250th birthday"

Ohio is 223 years old, having officially joined the United States as the 17th state in 1803.

> "Celebrating Ohio's and America's 250th birthday"

> Ohio is 223 years old

You might have misread the text? I see something different in the “Celebrating Ohio and America’s 250th birthday”, which I read as celebrating:

1. Ohio overall 2. America’s 250th

Without the Oxford comma, it was the most reasonable way to read it.

You would never put an Oxford comma in a list of two items

Exactly. If someone says, “I’m running to the grocery and McDonald’s drive-thru,” no one assumes they are sharing a drive-thru…

Pedantic HNers might...

For real there is no single collection of online pedantry more pedantic than HN.

	▲	embedding-shape an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Actually, before HN there was Usenet which I assure you, as I know everything, was much more pedantic than HN ever was.

pastel8739 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It actually says “celebrating Ohio and America’s 250th” (not Ohio’s) so this works ok

prawn 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Amusingly, there are 18 stars in the header banner of the poster. Missed opportunity!

Ohio, not Ohio's