Oh My Omeo

It was a random pick- from Boro to Lolo, the selection usually limited to words ending with letter o. But Oreo was the focal point. And we all know what Oreo represents even to adults. It started from Ameo to Zeo. It was a process of jumbling letters to create something unique that sounds like Oreo and which eventually ended up as Omeo.

During the setting up of accounts on the internet for blogs or photo/video sharing like Flickr and Youtube, the name Omeo was already taken or used by others. Although there were suggestions like Omeo1, it simply didn’t sound right.

So he tried searching for the word Omeo in Google for a possible connection. He discovered that the word Omeo is a small town in Australia with less than 500 populations. What was rather interesting was the meaning the Aborigines have given to the word – it means mountain or hill (courtesy of Wikipedia). A coincidence?

With such an apt discovery, it convinced him all the more to stick to the name, Omeo. This is not plagiarism, of course. The word existed for a long time and around the world many places and towns bear the same names. But the problem is how to use Omeo in the setting up of accounts. He tried mixing it with words like omeohill or omeolegazpi, but it doesn’t rhyme. In short, the choice was cut down to omeolegazpi, gazpi was deleted and replaced then by letter o. So omeo with a surname leo was created. Although Omeo is the account name for my blog since it was accepted, the rest of the other accounts were named Omeoleo.