New Ray and ...

The spouse is studying Italian.

"Ponte vecchio," his tape says.

"Hey, wait, what does that mean? What does 'vecchio' mean?" I ask him.

" 'The old bridge,' " he says. " 'Vecchio' means 'old.' "

So maybe everybody already knew this but me, but his name was "old Ray."

Now I want to know what Kowalski means.