diff --git a/spacy/lang/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/lang/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index f9b6530ec..6a7c09a44 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 # The use of this module turns out to be important, to avoid pathological
 # back-tracking. See Issue #957
-import regex
+import regex as re
 
 from ..symbols import ORTH, POS, LEMMA, SPACE, PUNCT
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ URL_PATTERN = (
     r"$"
 ).strip()
 
-TOKEN_MATCH = regex.compile(URL_PATTERN, regex.UNICODE).match
+TOKEN_MATCH = re.compile(URL_PATTERN, re.UNICODE).match
 
 
 
diff --git a/spacy/orth.pyx b/spacy/orth.pyx
index a34058b8e..da5d95735 100644
--- a/spacy/orth.pyx
+++ b/spacy/orth.pyx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import unicodedata
-import re
+import regex as re
 
 
 # Binary string features