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Meckz Payne wrote: indeed in Spanish, "juan" is the direct translation of jaune, which is rare since the name he had not heard jaune until the start of the series. That is factually wrong:

'jaune' = French for yellow - yellow in Spanish actually is 'amarillo'.

'Juan' as a name is French 'Jean' (there being a female form as 'Jeanne', which became 'Jean' in English) and it is 'John' in English, 'Johann(es)' in German.

On the basic question, I believe it's a case of persistent case of sloppy orthography - and a failure of the writers to recognize it as a mistake (IF they spell check their writing at all) because while wrong in the context, it is a familiar word to them. A similarily persistent mistake I see a lot is 'rouge' for 'rogue'.