Not, however, if the Duke of Gloucester Variant is in play, which is popular in the shires. Though, naturally, standard Sudbury-type openings are discouraged in that case, unless one is trying for a Wembley Roundabout.
That's true, I forgot because I've never played a lot of DoG myself, since I was raised in the Eastern Dialectic school of thought and never cared much for artichokes anyway.