about 250,000 quotations, making her (according to Ilan Stavans) "the supreme contributor, male or female, to the OED". Laski’s connection to the OED began in 1958, when Robert (Bob) Burchfield, Editor of the Supplement of the OED in the 1960s, published his second periodical desiderata list requesting the public’s aid in search for antedatings to specific vocabularies. It was to this list that Laski responded and began her time volunteering for the OED. In just her first year alone, Laski contributed 8,600 slips. Thus, Laski was, of course, mentioned in Burchfield’s first five-year report to the Oxford University Press (OUP) as one of the five outstanding figures who made significant input to the quotation files, in first place with 31,000 contributions. She was known to be fond of crime fiction, and her OED influence in particular to her interest in the works of Charlotte Yonge translated onto the novelist’s accession within the OED’s first and second editions. Laski had a compulsive habit of noting down in a small notebook any words that she thought would be useful for the OED in her readings. In fact, some of these notebooks are now preserved in the OED archives. According to Burchfield, Laski would also go through copious amounts of voluminous Edwardian catalogues for the names of domestic articles,vi scouring through magazines and books for unregistered vocabulary. In 1968, when the first volume of the Supplement was finally completed, Laski sent in a purposefully timed letter to Times Literary Supplement (TLS) expressing praise and appreciation for the Supplement to coincide with the time of its official publication. Laski was also one of the few individuals to receive a copy of that first volume of the Supplement even before its publication. In her 1972 letter to TLS, Laski also lamented her fear that the OED was lagging in time with the development of the English Language. She went as far as to call in a written submission to the Waldock Report or Waldock Committee, devoted to the modernization of OUP. Laski would convey her worries on how non-literary texts, which she considered a significant source of vocabulary that illuminated the history and development of the English language, were too often neglected. Her view of this matter, heavily based on her extensive historical readings, was eventually deemed quite reasonable and became an issue addressed in the OED3. Other impressive influences made by Laski include a