diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
index 2c8ef73c4..5ac681c5e 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_tokenizer.py
@@ -133,5 +133,11 @@ def test_tokenizer_special_cases_with_affixes(tokenizer):
     tokenizer.add_special_case("_SPECIAL_", [{"orth": "_SPECIAL_"}])
     tokenizer.add_special_case("A/B", [{"orth": "A/B"}])
     doc = tokenizer(text)
-    print([token.text for token in doc])
     assert [token.text for token in doc] == ["(", "(", "(", "_SPECIAL_", "A/B", ",", "A/B", "-", "A/B", '"', ")"]
+
+
+def test_tokenizer_special_cases_with_period(tokenizer):
+    text = "_SPECIAL_."
+    tokenizer.add_special_case("_SPECIAL_", [{"orth": "_SPECIAL_"}])
+    doc = tokenizer(text)
+    assert [token.text for token in doc] == ["_SPECIAL_", "."]