It may be Dear Utol (2025): TBrgy. Chairman Episode 39a terrible year for the United States, but in Mexico, 2018 is "el año de la mujer" -- the year of the woman.
A recent report from National Public Radio highlighted the abundance of women running for elected office in the North American country. Everything would've been great, too, if not for an extremely unfortunate language error when NPR tweeted the story.
SEE ALSO: 'Simpsons' fans dream of a Mexico and Portugal World Cup final"There are more than 3,000 women running for elective office in Mexico," the original tweet read. "Some Mexicans are calling 2018 'el ano de la mujer,' which translates to 'the year of the woman.'"
Do you see the mistake? It says "ano" rather than "año." The latter word, with the tilde situated above the "n," translates to year. But ano? No tilde? Yeah, that's Spanish for anus.
The anus of the woman. Good grief.
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Accidents happen, and NPR corrected the error, as you can see. But not before a waiting Twitter gleefully kicked around the original tweet. In good fun, of course. Great to know that's still possible in 2018.
(And hey, here's that original story. The año/ano thing is both unfortunate and funny, but NPR's report is still a good, informative read.)
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It wasn't all fun and games, however. Some used the occasion of NPR's error to point out the importance of representation in the newsroom. We might not know how this particular error came to happen, but you can bet a fluent Spanish-speaker would have caught that mistake on a fact-check!
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UPDATEDJuly 1, 2018 9:13 p.m. ET An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Mexico is in Central America, when it is actually part of North America.
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