@Monkey:
OF COURSE it does, what the fuck. Oda wouldn't name the entire series after it if the name was just some silly rumor.
Whitebeard and numerous Roger crewmates have called it the One Piece, and they were all privy to what it was.
"One Piece" means something. End of story.
That’s why I made those questions. How does the name of the treasure reach the public? Roger’s crew or WB who spread the info? I cant see it. I cant consider a deep meaning of its name until we have better support to know the genesis of that name or how people know it.
Closest thing we have was when Usopp asked Rayleigh about it. He said “The great treasure in a single piece… is the treasure known as One Piece”. It isn’t clear however I assume from that line the first phrase explain somehow the second. So people may know the same as Usopp, but they dont know what is the treasure itself.
It may end up being related to the content but I don’t believe it will have a deep meaning such as a project name.
To me, "one piece" thing has nothing to do with any kind of leaked info.
And what is that treasure in your opinion?
I agree with your idea that it's a gathering of things that are now for the first time in one place. But I doubt we agree on WHAT is gathered there…
IMO, the treasure is a kind of a Pandora’s box of knowledge that reveal the evil history hidden of the void century consequently the true nature of the WG. I can only be sure about part of it, at least. The Rio Poneglyph is part of it. It is known it resides in the final island, the Poneglyph Roger took from Shandora is there. There’s nothing else we can be sure of. We may assume many puzzles poneglyph are there, that together form the Rio Poneglyph. That’s the only hint we have so far.