diff --git a/spacy/_ml.py b/spacy/_ml.py
index e5d1cfc63..d4f0e8bef 100644
--- a/spacy/_ml.py
+++ b/spacy/_ml.py
@@ -242,6 +242,10 @@ class PrecomputableAffine(Model):
 
 def link_vectors_to_models(vocab):
     vectors = vocab.vectors
+    if vectors.name is None:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Unnamed vectors -- this won't allow multiple vectors "
+            "models to be loaded. (Shape: (%d, %d))" % vectors.data.shape)
     ops = Model.ops
     for word in vocab:
         if word.orth in vectors.key2row:
@@ -251,11 +255,11 @@ def link_vectors_to_models(vocab):
     data = ops.asarray(vectors.data)
     # Set an entry here, so that vectors are accessed by StaticVectors
     # (unideal, I know)
-    thinc.extra.load_nlp.VECTORS[(ops.device, VECTORS_KEY)] = data
+    thinc.extra.load_nlp.VECTORS[(ops.device, vectors.name)] = data
 
 
 def Tok2Vec(width, embed_size, **kwargs):
-    pretrained_dims = kwargs.get('pretrained_dims', 0)
+    pretrained_vectors = kwargs.get('pretrained_vectors', None)
     cnn_maxout_pieces = kwargs.get('cnn_maxout_pieces', 2)
     cols = [ID, NORM, PREFIX, SUFFIX, SHAPE, ORTH]
     with Model.define_operators({'>>': chain, '|': concatenate, '**': clone,
@@ -268,16 +272,16 @@ def Tok2Vec(width, embed_size, **kwargs):
                            name='embed_suffix')
         shape = HashEmbed(width, embed_size//2, column=cols.index(SHAPE),
                           name='embed_shape')
-        if pretrained_dims is not None and pretrained_dims >= 1:
-            glove = StaticVectors(VECTORS_KEY, width, column=cols.index(ID))
+        if pretrained_vectors is not None:
+            glove = StaticVectors(pretrained_vectors, width, column=cols.index(ID))
 
             embed = uniqued(
                 (glove | norm | prefix | suffix | shape)
-                >> LN(Maxout(width, width*5, pieces=3)), column=5)
+                >> LN(Maxout(width, width*5, pieces=3)), column=cols.index(ORTH))
         else:
             embed = uniqued(
                 (norm | prefix | suffix | shape)
-                >> LN(Maxout(width, width*4, pieces=3)), column=5)
+                >> LN(Maxout(width, width*4, pieces=3)), column=cols.index(ORTH))
 
         convolution = Residual(
             ExtractWindow(nW=1)
@@ -433,13 +437,13 @@ def build_tagger_model(nr_class, **cfg):
         token_vector_width = cfg['token_vector_width']
     else:
         token_vector_width = util.env_opt('token_vector_width', 128)
-    pretrained_dims = cfg.get('pretrained_dims', 0)
+    pretrained_vectors = cfg['pretrained_vectors']
     with Model.define_operators({'>>': chain, '+': add}):
         if 'tok2vec' in cfg:
             tok2vec = cfg['tok2vec']
         else:
             tok2vec = Tok2Vec(token_vector_width, embed_size,
-                              pretrained_dims=pretrained_dims)
+                              pretrained_vectors=pretrained_vectors)
         softmax = with_flatten(Softmax(nr_class, token_vector_width))
         model = (
             tok2vec
diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index f04da7d30..fe3c574a1 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ class Language(object):
         if vocab is True:
             factory = self.Defaults.create_vocab
             vocab = factory(self, **meta.get('vocab', {}))
+            if vocab.vectors.name is None:
+                vocab.vectors.name = meta.get('vectors', {}).get('name')
         self.vocab = vocab
         if make_doc is True:
             factory = self.Defaults.create_tokenizer
@@ -158,7 +160,8 @@ class Language(object):
         self._meta.setdefault('license', '')
         self._meta['vectors'] = {'width': self.vocab.vectors_length,
                                  'vectors': len(self.vocab.vectors),
-                                 'keys': self.vocab.vectors.n_keys}
+                                 'keys': self.vocab.vectors.n_keys,
+                                 'name': self.vocab.vectors.name}
         self._meta['pipeline'] = self.pipe_names
         return self._meta
 
@@ -457,6 +460,8 @@ class Language(object):
         else:
             device = None
         link_vectors_to_models(self.vocab)
+        if self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1]:
+            cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name
         if sgd is None:
             sgd = create_default_optimizer(Model.ops)
         self._optimizer = sgd
@@ -629,6 +634,7 @@ class Language(object):
             ('tokenizer', lambda p: self.tokenizer.from_disk(p, vocab=False)),
             ('meta.json', lambda p: self.meta.update(util.read_json(p)))
         ))
+        _fix_pretrained_vectors_name(self)
         for name, proc in self.pipeline:
             if name in disable:
                 continue
@@ -674,6 +680,7 @@ class Language(object):
             ('tokenizer', lambda b: self.tokenizer.from_bytes(b, vocab=False)),
             ('meta', lambda b: self.meta.update(ujson.loads(b)))
         ))
+        _fix_pretrained_vectors_name(self)
         for i, (name, proc) in enumerate(self.pipeline):
             if name in disable:
                 continue
@@ -683,6 +690,24 @@ class Language(object):
         msg = util.from_bytes(bytes_data, deserializers, {})
         return self
 
+def _fix_pretrained_vectors_name(nlp):
+    # TODO: Replace this once we handle vectors consistently as static
+    # data
+    if 'vectors' in nlp.meta and nlp.meta['vectors'].get('name'):
+        nlp.vocab.vectors.name = nlp.meta['vectors']['name']
+    elif 'name' in nlp.meta and 'lang' in nlp.meta:
+        vectors_name = '%s_%s.vectors' % (nlp.meta['lang'], nlp.meta['name'])
+        nlp.vocab.vectors.name = vectors_name
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Unnamed vectors")
+    for name, proc in nlp.pipeline:
+        if not hasattr(proc, 'cfg'):
+            continue
+        if proc.cfg.get('pretrained_dims'):
+            assert nlp.vocab.vectors.name
+            proc.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = nlp.vocab.vectors.name
+        print(proc.cfg)
+
 
 class DisabledPipes(list):
     """Manager for temporary pipeline disabling."""
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index 743f6ac85..c1190ca0c 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -202,8 +202,10 @@ class Pipe(object):
     def from_bytes(self, bytes_data, **exclude):
         """Load the pipe from a bytestring."""
         def load_model(b):
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name 
             if self.model is True:
-                self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims', self.vocab.vectors_length)
                 self.model = self.Model(**self.cfg)
             self.model.from_bytes(b)
 
@@ -227,8 +229,10 @@ class Pipe(object):
     def from_disk(self, path, **exclude):
         """Load the pipe from disk."""
         def load_model(p):
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name 
             if self.model is True:
-                self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims', self.vocab.vectors_length)
                 self.model = self.Model(**self.cfg)
             self.model.from_bytes(p.open('rb').read())
 
@@ -286,7 +290,6 @@ class Tensorizer(Pipe):
         self.model = model
         self.input_models = []
         self.cfg = dict(cfg)
-        self.cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1]
         self.cfg.setdefault('cnn_maxout_pieces', 3)
 
     def __call__(self, doc):
@@ -403,8 +406,6 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
         self.model = model
         self.cfg = OrderedDict(sorted(cfg.items()))
         self.cfg.setdefault('cnn_maxout_pieces', 2)
-        self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims',
-                            self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1])
 
     @property
     def labels(self):
@@ -516,7 +517,6 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
                                           vocab.morphology.lemmatizer,
                                           exc=vocab.morphology.exc)
         if self.model is True:
-            self.cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1]
             self.model = self.Model(self.vocab.morphology.n_tags, **self.cfg)
         link_vectors_to_models(self.vocab)
         if sgd is None:
@@ -525,6 +525,14 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
 
     @classmethod
     def Model(cls, n_tags, **cfg):
+        if cfg.get('pretrained_dims') and not cfg.get('pretrained_vectors'):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Bad configuration of Tagger --- this is probably a bug "
+                "within spaCy. We changed the name of an internal attribute "
+                "for loading pre-trained vectors, and the class has been "
+                "passed the old name (pretrained_dims) but not the new name "
+                "(pretrained_vectors)")
+        print(cfg)
         return build_tagger_model(n_tags, **cfg)
 
     def add_label(self, label, values=None):
@@ -572,6 +580,10 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
 
     def from_bytes(self, bytes_data, **exclude):
         def load_model(b):
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name 
+ 
             if self.model is True:
                 token_vector_width = util.env_opt(
                     'token_vector_width',
@@ -597,7 +609,6 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
         return self
 
     def to_disk(self, path, **exclude):
-        self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims', self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1])
         tag_map = OrderedDict(sorted(self.vocab.morphology.tag_map.items()))
         serialize = OrderedDict((
             ('vocab', lambda p: self.vocab.to_disk(p)),
@@ -610,6 +621,9 @@ class Tagger(Pipe):
 
     def from_disk(self, path, **exclude):
         def load_model(p):
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name
             if self.model is True:
                 self.model = self.Model(self.vocab.morphology.n_tags, **self.cfg)
             with p.open('rb') as file_:
@@ -659,8 +673,6 @@ class MultitaskObjective(Tagger):
                              "one of: dep, tag, ent, dep_tag_offset, ent_tag.")
         self.cfg = dict(cfg)
         self.cfg.setdefault('cnn_maxout_pieces', 2)
-        self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims',
-                            self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1])
 
     @property
     def labels(self):
@@ -904,7 +916,6 @@ class TextCategorizer(Pipe):
         else:
             token_vector_width = 64
         if self.model is True:
-            self.cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors_length
             self.model = self.Model(len(self.labels), token_vector_width,
                                     **self.cfg)
             link_vectors_to_models(self.vocab)
diff --git a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
index b4b8d4779..c12b733e7 100644
--- a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ cdef class Parser:
         if hist_width != 0:
             raise ValueError("Currently history width is hard-coded to 0")
         tok2vec = Tok2Vec(token_vector_width, embed_size,
-                          pretrained_dims=cfg.get('pretrained_dims', 0))
+                          pretrained_vectors=cfg.get('pretrained_vectors', None))
         tok2vec = chain(tok2vec, flatten)
         lower = PrecomputableAffine(hidden_width,
                     nF=cls.nr_feature, nI=token_vector_width,
@@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ cdef class Parser:
             unless True (default), in which case a new instance is created with
             `Parser.Moves()`.
         model (object): Defines how the parse-state is created, updated and
-            evaluated. The value is set to the .model attribute unless True
-            (default), in which case a new instance is created with
-            `Parser.Model()`.
+            evaluated. The value is set to the .model attribute. If set to True
+            (default), a new instance will be created with `Parser.Model()`
+            in parser.begin_training(), parser.from_disk() or parser.from_bytes().
         **cfg: Arbitrary configuration parameters. Set to the `.cfg` attribute
         """
         self.vocab = vocab
@@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ cdef class Parser:
             cfg['beam_width'] = util.env_opt('beam_width', 1)
         if 'beam_density' not in cfg:
             cfg['beam_density'] = util.env_opt('beam_density', 0.0)
-        if 'pretrained_dims' not in cfg:
-            cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors.data.shape[1]
         cfg.setdefault('cnn_maxout_pieces', 3)
         self.cfg = cfg
         if 'actions' in self.cfg:
@@ -832,7 +830,6 @@ cdef class Parser:
                 self.moves.add_action(action, label)
         cfg.setdefault('token_vector_width', 128)
         if self.model is True:
-            cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors_length
             self.model, cfg = self.Model(self.moves.n_moves, **cfg)
             if sgd is None:
                 sgd = self.create_optimizer()
@@ -896,9 +893,12 @@ cdef class Parser:
         }
         util.from_disk(path, deserializers, exclude)
         if 'model' not in exclude:
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name
+            print("Create parser model", self.cfg)
             path = util.ensure_path(path)
             if self.model is True:
-                self.cfg.setdefault('pretrained_dims', self.vocab.vectors_length)
                 self.model, cfg = self.Model(**self.cfg)
             else:
                 cfg = {}
@@ -941,12 +941,14 @@ cdef class Parser:
         ))
         msg = util.from_bytes(bytes_data, deserializers, exclude)
         if 'model' not in exclude:
+            # TODO: Remove this once we don't have to handle previous models
+            if 'pretrained_dims' in self.cfg and 'pretrained_vectors' not in self.cfg:
+                self.cfg['pretrained_vectors'] = self.vocab.vectors.name
+            print("Create parser model", self.cfg)
             if self.model is True:
                 self.model, cfg = self.Model(**self.cfg)
-                cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors_length
             else:
                 cfg = {}
-            cfg['pretrained_dims'] = self.vocab.vectors_length
             if 'tok2vec_model' in msg:
                 self.model[0].from_bytes(msg['tok2vec_model'])
             if 'lower_model' in msg:
diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index 1200ebe8c..3530ca6e2 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ _languages = ['bn', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'ga', 'he', 'hu', 'id',
 _models = {'en': ['en_core_web_sm'],
            'de': ['de_core_news_md'],
            'fr': ['fr_core_news_sm'],
-           'xx': ['xx_ent_web_md']}
+           'xx': ['xx_ent_web_md'],
+           'en_core_web_md': ['en_core_web_md'],
+           'es_core_news_md': ['es_core_news_md']}
 
 
 # only used for tests that require loading the models
@@ -183,6 +185,9 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 
     for lang in _languages + ['all']:
         parser.addoption("--%s" % lang, action="store_true", help="Use %s models" % lang)
+    for model in _models:
+        if model not in _languages:
+            parser.addoption("--%s" % model, action="store_true", help="Use %s model" % model)
 
 
 def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
diff --git a/spacy/vectors.pyx b/spacy/vectors.pyx
index 1b265e189..f4880b31c 100644
--- a/spacy/vectors.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vectors.pyx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # coding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
+import functools
 import numpy
 from collections import OrderedDict
 import msgpack
@@ -19,6 +20,20 @@ def unpickle_vectors(bytes_data):
     return Vectors().from_bytes(bytes_data)
 
 
+class GlobalRegistry(object):
+    '''Global store of vectors, to avoid repeatedly loading the data.'''
+    data = {}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def register(cls, name, data):
+        cls.data[name] = data
+        return functools.partial(cls.get, name)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get(cls, name):
+        return cls.data[name]
+
+
 cdef class Vectors:
     """Store, save and load word vectors.
 
@@ -31,18 +46,21 @@ cdef class Vectors:
     the table need to be assigned --- so len(list(vectors.keys())) may be
     greater or smaller than vectors.shape[0].
     """
+    cdef public object name
     cdef public object data
     cdef public object key2row
     cdef public object _unset
 
-    def __init__(self, *, shape=None, data=None, keys=None):
+    def __init__(self, *, shape=None, data=None, keys=None, name=None):
         """Create a new vector store.
 
         shape (tuple): Size of the table, as (# entries, # columns)
         data (numpy.ndarray): The vector data.
         keys (iterable): A sequence of keys, aligned with the data.
+        name (string): A name to identify the vectors table.
         RETURNS (Vectors): The newly created object.
         """
+        self.name = name
         if data is None:
             if shape is None:
                 shape = (0,0)
diff --git a/spacy/vocab.pyx b/spacy/vocab.pyx
index 0a675253b..95d97bbf0 100644
--- a/spacy/vocab.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vocab.pyx
@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ cdef class Vocab:
             self.lexemes_from_bytes(file_.read())
         if self.vectors is not None:
             self.vectors.from_disk(path, exclude='strings.json')
-        link_vectors_to_models(self)
+        if self.vectors.name is not None:
+            link_vectors_to_models(self)
         return self
 
     def to_bytes(self, **exclude):
@@ -421,6 +422,8 @@ cdef class Vocab:
             ('vectors', lambda b: serialize_vectors(b))
         ))
         util.from_bytes(bytes_data, setters, exclude)
+        if self.vectors.name is not None:
+            link_vectors_to_models(self)
         return self
 
     def lexemes_to_bytes(self):