I remember an SAT question about "taking for granted". One of the other options was "taking for granite". I had never wondered about how this mostly-spoken phr

I remember an SAT question about "taking for granted". One of the other options was "taking for granite". I had never wondered about how this mostly-spoken phrase would be written out, or how the orthography would shed light on its meaning. I was surprised to realize that a phrase I knew very well, I had probably never read (and definitely never written).