WHY

are smorgasbords always ‘veritable’? Tim Briffa, London *Good question, Tim, and one that we’re not qualified to answer. But perhaps one of our readers is a professor of linguistics at a prestigious Russell Group university who could tell us if smorgasbords have to be veritable. If so, why, and if not, why not? There’s a cheap Viz pen for any academic who puts this one to bed once and for all.