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I have just returned from a week in Washington, DC, where I stayed at the College of Preachers -- a lovely stone building on the campus of the National Cathedral. The COP is all Gothic and antiques and oil paintings, filled with oddly shaped rooms and little stairways down which one fully expects Harry Potter to come at any moment.
It is an easy walk from the COP to the National Cathedral and I thought myself sufficiently clever to go in one of the side doors, go down to the crypt level, and find my way past the many chapels to the bookshop. In so doing, I got lost several times and passed numerous niches where the bones of the faithful were interred and memorialized. It occurred to me that the route to the bookstore was "catacombious" -- the "b" is silent.
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passed numerous niches were the bones of the faithful were interred Ewwwwwwww, that is SO creepy! [shivers e] Catacombious, catacombious--it does have a nice ring to it!  P.S.--Welcome home!
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Jackie ~
Did you use black and orange because they are Hallowe'en colours?
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No. I chose the orange because it was a nasty subject, and to me, orange is the nastiest of our choices of colors.
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Orange .. the colour of satsumas, a lovely county in California, some charming Irish people, a city in Texas, those cute little cones one has to drive around, a village in Ohio, a sort of bicycle made in the UK, and a word with which nothing else rhymes.
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the colour of satsumas What are these, please? , a lovely county in California I've heard of it. , some charming Irish people I have never seen an orange person. , a city in Texas Never heard of that one. , those cute little cones one has to drive around  , a village in Ohio Never heard of this one, either. , a sort of bicycle made in the UK Mountain bikes--I found the site. , and a word with which nothing else rhymes. Ruh roh...here be a challenge, methinks! I dunno--I just have never liked the orange/yellow/brown families of colors; and I'm not fond of too many greens, either. I do think a soft, cream-colored yellow can make a nice contrast color. I can tolerate a yellow if it's a real yellow and not just trying to be yellow. But for real liking, give me blues, purples, bluish greens (except for sea green--I do like that), and all sorts of nice vivid reds and pinks. But no yellowy pinks, like coral. 
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the "b" is silent.
all talk of color aside, I still can't seem to say this word without the b...
formerly known as etaoin...
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can't seem to say this word without the b
Ya gotta come off the m kinda soft-like. Don' try an do it all over sudden. An keep the voicing going good through into the i.
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A satsuma is a variety of tangerine, the proper scientific name of which is Citrus unshiu Marcovitch. I learned how to make sorbet from them last Christmas. (It is not that satsumas taught me how to make sorbet, but rather that I learned how to make sorbet out of the juice of satsumas.)
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So, if one area is catacombious, is a complex of catacomb-like places referred to as being a catacombination? 
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