diff --git a/website/usage/_linguistic-features/_rule-based-matching.jade b/website/usage/_linguistic-features/_rule-based-matching.jade
index 9abda6e0f..7984b100e 100644
--- a/website/usage/_linguistic-features/_rule-based-matching.jade
+++ b/website/usage/_linguistic-features/_rule-based-matching.jade
@@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ p
                 span.merge()   # merge
                 for token in span:
                     token._.bad_html = True  # mark token as bad HTML
-                    doc.vocab[token.text].is_stop = True  # mark lexeme as stop word
             return doc
 
     nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')