There are a lot of things in aviation that go against our normal
instincts or reactions. Like when you first performed an emergency
procedure your instructor reduced the power to idle. I bet your first
reaction was to lower the nose. Now you know to trade potential engergy
for kinetic and raise the nose, climb to bleed the airspeed off to
catch your best glide speed. Its a trade off.

So here is what happens with VNO. People like acronyms. So those who
were taught that VNO is Normal operation speed needed words that
matched VNO. For those of us who are anal retentive and yes I am one of
those people because I must follow strict interpretation of regulations
because I am required to do so, we'll always know that VNO is Maximum
structural cruising speed. Look in FAR part 1 under definitions.