diff --git a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
index f4ea10f9c..cc01f1aea 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
@@ -9,21 +9,9 @@ from .punctuation import TOKENIZER_INFIXES
 from .lemmatizer import EnglishLemmatizer
 from ...language import Language
 from ...lookups import Lookups
-from ...util import load_config_from_str
-
-
-DEFAULT_CONFIG = """
-[initialize]
-
-[initialize.lookups]
-@misc = "spacy.LookupsDataLoader.v1"
-lang = ${nlp.lang}
-tables = ["lexeme_norm"]
-"""
 
 
 class EnglishDefaults(Language.Defaults):
-    config = load_config_from_str(DEFAULT_CONFIG)
     tokenizer_exceptions = TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS
     infixes = TOKENIZER_INFIXES
     lex_attr_getters = LEX_ATTRS