Why don’t airport codes match their names?

ViewIf you went from "LOL" to "OMG" to "EEK," you might have laughed, gasped then grimaced — or you might have just traveled from Lovelock, Nevada to Omega airport in Namibia to Eek, Alaska.  

Welcome to the wild world of airport codes. To understand how airports get their abbreviations, we need to know some other...