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To further complicate matters, a LOT of houses connect the ground wire to the neutral buss... usually a copper strip with all the grounds and white wires connected to it. This makes "neutral" and "ground" common to each other.
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It has been a while since I've seen the NEC, but if I recall correctly code calls for the neutral and ground to always be connected - but only at one spot (the buss bar).