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(In my own recommended usage, when it comes to milk, it makes no difference; but if you are talking about beer or gin, then neither is acceptable.)

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  1. adjective Not one or the other; not either: Neither shoe feels comfortable.
  2. pronoun Not either one; not the one or the other: Neither of the twins is here. Neither will do. Neither of them is incorrect.
  3. conjunction Not either; not in either case. Used with the correlative conjunction nor: Neither we nor they want it. She neither called nor wrote. I got neither the gift nor the card.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English nāwther, nāhwæther (influenced by æghwæther, ægther, either) : nā, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + hwæther, which of two; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English neither, neyther, nethir, also nather, nawther, nowther, nouther, nother, from Anglo-Saxon nāther, nāthor, nōther, nāuther, nāuthær, nāwther, contr. of nāhwæther (= OFries. nahweder, nauder, nouder, ner), adjective, pron., and conjunction, neither, from ne, not, + āhwæther, āwther, etc., either: see either. The form neither conforms in spelling and pron. to either; it would reg. be only nother (nō′-ŦHė;r), there being no Anglo-Saxon form of ǣgther (whence English either) with the negative. The variation in the pronunciation of neither depends on that of either. See either.
  2. from Middle English neither, neyther, etc., nawther, nowther, nouther, nother, etc., contr. also nor, which now prevails as the second form in the correlation neither … nor; from neither, adjective and pron., being the same as either with the negative prefixed: see neither, adjective and pron.
 

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