    Sentence 1: In the matter of pronunciations of BrEng  names, it is an old-fashioned fontasy of Americans  that Brits go round saying POM-frit for Pontefract :  ‘most Brits that I have heard give the name a spelling  Pronunciation these days; and so with many of the  Old shibboleths.    Sentence 2: This is becouse America went so long  dunking on Britian that we have a lot of stereotypes.