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1) Softness does indeed mean weakness here. Consumer spending in the US has recently weakened/softened. 2) I wouldn't completely agree with your answer. Those higher prices, by eroding households' disposable income, have accounted for at least some softness in consumer spending of late, a...

Here is some advice on the use of got and gotten. Got is the past tense and past participle of get. You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. I’ve got a coat just like this. She hasn’t got a work...

sorry I posted before finishing... so everybody has to learn English at some point.

Malta has two official languages, Maltese and English. Maltese is a mixture of Italian and Arabic - not the easiest language to learn and is extremely consonantal. Kids in Malta learn English and Maltese, Italian through television and school and have to choose either French or German in...