"Shock and Awe"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:36 PM -0500 3/23/03, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>Most outrageous indeed.  Another term that should be nominated in some
>category or other is "embedded," especially by us linguist types.  And just
>today I heard that there are some independent journalists (unembedded, or
>not embeds) in Iraq, but I've forgotten the term for them--isolates?

The relatively new one here, I imagine, would be "embed" as a noun,
with predictable retracted (first syllable) stress.  It's not in the
on-line OED or AHD4.

larry