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G

gases
plural of gas, not gasses

gearbox, gearshift
all one word, unlike…

gear lever
which is two

gender
Phrases such as career girl or career woman are outdated and patronising. Businessmen, housewives, male nurse, woman pilot, woman doctor similarly reinforce outdated stereotypes.
Actor and comedian cover men and women; not actress, comedienne (but waiter and waitress are acceptable — at least for the moment). Firefighter, not fireman; PC, not WPC (most police forces have abandoned the distinction). Use humankind or humanity rather than mankind. Never say “his" to cover men and women: use his or her, or a different construction; in sentences such as “a teacher who beats his/her pupils is not fit to do the job", there is usually a way round the problem — in this case, “teachers who beat their pupils … "

general election

Geneva convention

geography
distinct areas are capped up: Black Country, East Anglia, Lake District, Midlands, Peak District, West Country; but areas defined by compass points are lc: the north, the south-east, the south-west, etc

GM crops, GM food
no need to write genetically modified in full at first mention

go-slow
noun go slow verb

government
lc in all contexts and all countries

graffiti
are plural, graffito is the singular

grand prix
lc, the British grand prix grands prix plural

grassroots
one word

green
a green activist, the green movement, but uc when referring to so-named political parties, eg the German Greens

green belt
designated areas around cities subject to strict planning controls, not open countryside in general

greenfield site
one that has not been built on before; one that has been built on before is a brownfield site

greenhouse effect
Energy from the Earth's surface is trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases that prevent it leaking into space, a natural phenomenon that makes life possible, whose enhancement by natural or manmade means may make life impossible. Not the result of the hole in the ozone layer, whose thinning in the upper atmosphere is due to CFCs; the connection is that CFCs are also greenhouse gases

green paper

G7
Group of Seven leading industrial countries (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US), but no need to spell out

G8
the G7 plus Russia

Gulf war
of 1991

guineapig

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