diff --git a/tests/test_rules.py b/tests/test_rules.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b19a1c3f1..000000000
--- a/tests/test_rules.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-from spacy import util
-
-
-def test_load_en():
-    rules = util.read_tokenization('en')
-    assert len(rules) != 0
-    aint = [rule for rule in rules if rule[0] == "ain't"][0]
-    chunk, pieces = aint
-    assert chunk == "ain't"
-    assert pieces[0] == "are"
-    assert pieces[1] == "not"