I’m not usually a person who falls easily into scams or attempts by others to obtain more money for a product than it is realistically worth.
But this one got me.
If I asked you what NOH means, would you know?
What if I said it was on a website that sells products?
Still no idea?
Well that’s ok, because you won’t be alone. I asked my contacts and friends via facebook and twitter and whilst I had some excellent guesses and some fun ones, not one of them was right or even close to being right.
First, a bit of history. I was probably the first keeper (read maintainer) of text speak acronyms (as they’ve become known) on “teh internets”. It was an ascii document full of smilies in all varieties, TLA’s such as IANAL, and it even had some ascii art in it. You’ll see the linked doc has my old, now defunct, email address and is from Feb 8th 1994 but I’d been maintaining it for a couple of years by that stage.
I tell you this to let you know that I do acronyms. I get them. I understand them and I’ve seen most of them already. If I don’t know them, then google is but a click or two away. But NOH had me thoroughly foxed.
When I saw it in the context it was in it was laid out this way:
Product Name Model NOH Get FREE blah - where ‘Model’ was a combination of letters and numbers.
Later on the same page it repeats the black boldened text but this time it is non-bold and nothing else on the line.
So would you then expect, as I did, that the NOH was simply an extension of the model?
Maybe you wouldn’t, but I haven’t found anyone yet that understands what it meant out of context or even in.
But I do know now.
After I purchased said product.
It means “Newly OverHauled” as in refurbished or second hand.
Last time that one gets me and I hope this goes some way to helping others.
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