WHY should Tronoh be respelled Teronoh? Because in Malay, a word beginning with a consonant must be followed by a vowel. Hence, Teronoh is correct.
It’s true that there are some commonly used words in Malay that do not follow this rule, like trafik, skru, and brek, but these are loan words.
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