Crucial place of prefixes, suffixes in English grammar

There are yardsticks (unwritten) that a majority of people expect anybody with the prefix ‘Dr’, ‘Eng’ or ‘Prof’ before his or her name to meet. Such people are presumed to be highly intelligent. ‘Presumed’, because education, which they have in abundance, is different from intelligence. One is about the acquisition of knowledge while the other is about the application of that knowledge. Thus, it is alarming to hear some of the 'professors' and 'doctors' use non-existent words with all the confidence they can muster during live television debates that have become so commonplace.

It is common to hear some of the analysts and other people use the word ‘anyhowly’. A few days ago, a senior police officer, while explaining the murder of an individual in Mombasa in the wee hours of one morning by unknown people, was heard to say, “the police do not kill people anyhowly”. This word, as with many others commonly used by students of the English language, does not exist. The word ‘unequivocably’, for instance, is being wrongly used by some speakers of the English language instead of the correct word ‘unequivocally’. When asking a visitor to ‘feel at home’, some say ‘you are welcomed’. In this case, it is only proper to say ‘you are welcome’. Using the past participle of ‘welcome’ is grammatically wrong.