diff --git a/spacy/default_config.cfg b/spacy/default_config.cfg
index 222ef7d38..a55fad097 100644
--- a/spacy/default_config.cfg
+++ b/spacy/default_config.cfg
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ limit = 0
 # This is especially useful for punctuation and case replacement, to help
 # generalize beyond corpora that don't have smart-quotes, or only have smart
 # quotes, etc.
-augmenter = {"@augmenters": "spacy.orth_variants.v1", "level": 0.1, "lower": 0.5}
+augmenter = null
 
 [corpora.dev]
 @readers = "spacy.Corpus.v1"