Do You Know The Expression: SOHO?

Is SOHO a familiar, everyday expression?

It certainly looks like an acronym, but what does it mean?

Are we, perchance, talking about the famous Soho district of London? Or, are we talking about the giddy lights of New York?

Here's what the website AllinLondon.co.uk says about Soho:

• Though it's never going to be cheap, the infamous Soho district should be experienced at least once by visitors and Londoners alike purely because of its history and the fact that it is the historic centre of London nightlife.
• Lying to the east of Regent's Street and west of Tottenham Court Road with the miriad of bars and restaurants on offer, Soho never fails to pull in the punters on Friday and Saturday nights in particular.
• The sex shops for which it once was known are now far less prominent with the trendies slowly taking over with up-market bars and restaurants.
• It remains however a wonderful mix of chic and trashy.
  

But the Soho district in London, and its mirror image in New York, are not the subject of this blog. So let's get to the point, shall we!

Let's therefore turn to Wikipedia websites for a definition of the the SOHO we want to focus on today. Here goes:

• The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo, or Small or Home Office or Single Office/ Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers.
• Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are often categorized as a small business.
• When a company reaches 100 or more employees, it is often referred to as a Small and Medium-sized Enterprise.
• At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the term "Small or Home Office" and its variants —along with the acronym "SOHO"— have been used to a great extent by companies who market products targeting the great numbers of small businesses which have a tiny or medium sized office.
• Several ranges of products, such as the Armoire desk and a few other desk forms, are often designed specifically for the "SOHO" market. Several kinds of books are written and marketed specifically for this type of office, ranging from general advice texts to specific guidebooks on setting up such things as a small PBX for the office telephones.