Waxing Elephants About the Oat.

Madeline at Francis Collier has a post up entitled ‘Iceland Outtakes’ which irritates me every time I see it in my reading list. This is partly because ‘outtake’ is a horrible word – having two t’s in the middle, both of which are pronounced – but mainly because I keep reading it as ‘Iceland Oatflakes’ or ‘Iceland Oatcakes.’ I’m having the same problem with Hotmail, which I keep seeing as ‘oatmeal.’ I never knew I had an oat obsession. Or could it be Mrs Malaprop getting to me again?