premise: In the matter of pronunciations of BrEng names , it is an old-fashioned fantasy 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 .
hypothesis: This is because America went so long dunking on Britian that we have a lot of stereotypes and false is not true .