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14th March 2018
11:40am GMT

"Lads I'm f**king howling my neighbour is a primary school teacher and just put this on his insta story.... miggeldy higens."https://twitter.com/helllolucy/status/973625701160095744 The original post wracked up more than 2,800 likes and 900 comments in less than 24 hours. She continued:
"For anybody that isn't Irish and doesn't know, our President's name is Michael D. Higgins. Now known as Miggeldy Higens. I don't make the rules.https://twitter.com/helllolucy/status/973698023980261377
"Aw stop I actually love kids they're so funny."Other people were soon sharing their own stories of names they misheard and misinterpreted when they were smaller. One person wrote:
"From this day forward he will only beSomeone else added:#miggeldyhigens to me."
"My mother had a friend called Flogill Martin. Or so we thought, until we were adults and found out she was Flo Gilmartin."Another commented:
"Ah this is fantastic. At my daughters Primary School there is a wonderful teaching assistant called Ms de Mooij (pronounced Ms Dee Moy)... for years my daughter insisted she was called Misty Moy."
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