“My assumption was that the bus would be late, so I ran, and then I stood at the stop for nine minutes.”
From the Latin assumere, which means to take up or take to yourself. The word drifted from picking something up to picking up an idea and carrying it around as if you had checked it.
Catch one assumption today, say it out loud as a sentence, then cross out the part you never checked.
💬 What is one thing everyone in this house assumes about Sundays that nobody has ever said out loud?