diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1001-1500.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1001-1500.py
index a9647f006..299a88ab7 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1001-1500.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1001-1500.py
@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@ def test_issue1061():
     assert 'MATH' not in [w.text for w in doc]
     text = '...gimme...? that ...gimme...? or else ...gimme...?!'
 
-    tokenizer = English.Defaults.create_tokenizer()
-    tokenizer.add_special_case(u'...gimme...?', [{ORTH: u'...gimme...?'}])
-    assert [w.text for w in nlp(text)] == ['...gimme...?', 'that', '...gimme...?', 'or', 'else', '...gimme...?', '!']
-
 
 @pytest.mark.xfail(
     reason="g is split of as a unit, as the suffix regular expression can not look back further (variable-width)"