Lucky they put the accent on the ‘ó’
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Imagine how it would have been pronounced otherwise.
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ó no!
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It would have been pronounced like Collon.
Frequently English-language publications lack the enye or tilde for the letter n,e.g. ñ. When writing about Cien Años de Soledad ( One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez, we often see the word ANOS with out the tilde,Ñ. Which would be an anatomical reference worthy of a congress of proctologists: ONE HUNDRED ANUSES.
A slightly more “correct” translation will be ONE HUNDRED SOLITARY ANUSES. It sounds gross but…there it is language for you. The solution: do not translate anything and become a polyglot (it also sounds kind of gross.)