Flammable comes from flammo, flammare, flammavi, flammatus. First conjugation verb. To burn. You also have conflammare, deflammare but these sadly didn't make it into the English language. Wouldn't it be nice to have deflammable fire blankets?

Perhaps next time you might want to consult a Latin dictionary first before posting?

Lewis and Short is available on line.

Please do not belittle the deaths of old, infirm and handicapped people who have died after state welfare support has been callously withdrawn (or threatened to be do so) by carelessly describing that as "state-sanctioned mass murder". By using such lurid terms, as if we know Ian Duncan Smith decided deliberately to "murder" or even kill these people, you run the risk of discrediting reports of these tragedies.

Bizarrely, the idea that there are mythical "death lists" or "death boards" (for economically burdensome individuals), in the UK or other modern European democracies, is used in the USA as an argument against the welfare state.

In reality, these deaths are where the protections of universal welfare have proved inadequate, and there is overwhelming support for the principles of a safety net for society and free public health in all the Western European democracies.

Minor (!) inaccuracy in the article: Sun Tzu did not live in the 6th century but the 6th century B.C.

Off by more than a thousand years...