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gaff or gaffe?
A gaff is a spear-like stick with a hook for catching fish and a gaffe is a blunder or error.
gage or gauge?
Gage is the US spelling; the British spelling is gauge.
Gandhi
A lot of people incorrectly spell Gandhi as Ghandi.
gasses or gases?
Two or more types of gas are gases; gasses is used to describe gassing something with gas.
Geneva conventions
It's not 'Geneva convention', but Geneva conventions. There was more than just one treaty.
geto or ghetto?
You could be forgiven for spelling it 'geto' but the correct spelling is ghetto. Why does it have such crazy spelling? It comes from Italian ghetto, which used to mean an area of a city to which Jews were restricted. My 1930 OED states: Jews' quarter in a city. The 2007 OED states: slum area of a city, especially of minority groups. That is meaning that the pioneering rap legends the Geto Boys most probably intended. I doubt that they are a Jewish rap group, but they certainly are "ghetto".
gift
Despite what a minority of people think, a gift is not a verb. You can give or receive a gift, but you can't say that you 'gifted' something.
Giuseppe
You might not need to use this very often but if you do, don't spell it 'Guiseppe'.
going forward
Can we please stop using the overused and (often) meaningless phrase?
gospeller or gospeler?
gospeller (UK) gospeler (US)
goths or Goths?
The Goths were a Germanic tribe, and goths tend to wear black.
gradeable or gradable?
gradeable (UK) gradable (US)
grannie or granny?
grannie: The British still to talk about their sweet old grannie with an -ie, not -y as the Americans do.
gray or grey?
The American spelling is gray, the British grey (like their weather).
Great Britain
The countries that make up Great Britain are: England, Scotland and Wales. If you also mean to include Northern Ireland, call it Britain or the UK.
grey or gray?
The American spelling is gray, the British grey (like their weather).
grisly or grizzly?
Grisly means terrifying, and grizzly is a type of bear.
gruelling or grueling?
gruelling: Double-L for the British spelling.
guerilla or guerrilla?
guerilla: The Americans use two Rs and the Brits only one.
gypsy or gipsy?
gypsy: The British spelling is with a -y-, with gipsy a variant, in the same way that tyre is tire in the US.