All most all teachers were given a nickname, in our school. and were very funny, We never used to call them by their names in their absence, so almost forgot their actual names. Do you give nicknames to your teachers???
it happens everywhere , in every schools and colleges in my view. we had also kept nick names for all the teachers and the names were very funny but we never forgot their real names because i think teachers are like our parents and how can we forget our parents?
I'm french and i remember when i was 14 yo, our latin teacher was a woman from russian origin. Her name: Kanghalov was not easy to pronounce for us so we call her: Kangourou (Kangaroo in english). It was funy for us but of course she never laugh to hear her nickname.
yeah, I could still remember our teacher in high school and we called her as the snack teacher because whenever a classmate of ours will offer her some snack, she would post the class discussion and let us feel free to roam around the classroom but without noise. she will just continue eating. when she is finished, the bell rang.