diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1281.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1281.py
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+# coding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('text', [
+    "She hasn't done the housework.",
+    "I haven't done it before.",
+    "you daren't do that"])
+def test_issue1281(en_tokenizer, text):
+    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
+    assert tokens[2].text == "n't"