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Basingstoke
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English
Pronunciation
en /ˈbeɪzɪŋ(ɡ)stəʊk/ UK
Proper noun
en town dist/Basingstoke and Deane co/Hampshire cc/England.
en w:Hadley Freeman Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/09/paul-rudd-ant-man-hollywoods-nice-guy-english-parents-kansas 2015-07-09 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20180301050956/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/09/paul-rudd-ant-man-hollywoods-nice-guy-english-parents-kansas
Derived terms
en Basingstoker Basingstoke and Deane