WE know that Batu Ferringhi is in Penang. If we translate the name of that well-known beach area, it would mean œforeigners rock. Not many take the name seriously. I had imagined how the Malays in Kedah (Penang was included before the arrival of Francis Light), like the Malays in Melaka earlier or at the same time, had likened the foreigner in the Portuguese language as a Ferringhi (meaning foreigner or outsider).
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