Basingstoke

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Basingstoke

/ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/ UK

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A town in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England. I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.

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@misc{basingstoke_2026,
  title = {Basingstoke},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/basingstoke},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}