Hello and welcome to Card Talk, our National Public Radio, with us clicking

Clack the Tapet Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for the Mangling

of Spanish Translation here at Card Talk Plaza.

It wasn't our fault. Let me just point this out. I mean, we didn't mangle any

things. Well, I just feel a little embarrassed. Several weeks ago we had a call from

somebody, some gentleman from Santa Fe. Yeah. And I asked him if he knew what Santa

Fe meant. And he didn't know. He confessed he didn't know, and then he asked me what it meant

and I didn't know either. But I figured he would know. He should know. I mean, why should

we know? And he suggested, he suggested in fact, Saint Fe. Yeah. And I said, it doesn't

sound right because I had heard once what it meant. And we got a lot of mail about this

actually. This one is from Christina Horn, who says, the Atom and Ray, Saint Fe, next

you'll be believing that they moved the animal. On your program, you had a call from Santa

Fe who stumbled through an explanation of what Santa Fe means. I was lucky enough to visit

there in June. And according to my guidebook, yes. See, people who live in the city know

I've read a guidebook because they know where they are. Right. To get this, the full

name of Santa Fe is La Vieira Real de Santa Fe de San Francisco de Aziz, the royal city

of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Aziz. And so, of course, Santa Fe means Holy Faith.

Not to be confused with what I explained, whatever my brother actually gets an answer right.

Well, is it related to Fe Ray? Yes. I think so. But the funny letter. This is a good

letter. Oh, I'm ready. I had great mail this week. Great mail. This is from David Hoyet,

H-U-Y-E-T-T from Wichita, Kansas, the Atom and Ray. I've been enjoying your radio program

for over a year and have been particularly entertained by your explanations of the many

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