diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
index 76597ec5a..22b4189fe 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_contractions.py
@@ -49,9 +49,3 @@ def test_punct(en_tokenizer):
     tokens = en_tokenizer("``We've")
     assert len(tokens) == 3
 
-
-def test_therell(en_tokenizer):
-    tokens = en_tokenizer("there'll")
-    assert len(tokens) == 2
-    assert tokens[0].text == "there"
-    assert tokens[1].text == "'ll"