Is there a substantial difference between presume and assume? Was Stanley being presumptuous when he said "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Interesting that the Latin has two prefixes, to and under, followed by take....to under take.
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Re: Presume
Well, it took 6 years to get around to finding it, but here's an entire article on just this question, courtesy of Dictionary.com. I'd say it's what I intuited in thinking on the differences, but couldn't quite put into words.
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