diff --git a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
index 3f422b834..7775084c4 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ from ...util import update_exc, add_lookups
 
 class EnglishDefaults(Language.Defaults):
     lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
+    lex_attr_getters.update(LEX_ATTRS)
     lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'en'
     lex_attr_getters[NORM] = add_lookups(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters[NORM],
                                          BASE_NORMS, NORM_EXCEPTIONS)
-    lex_attr_getters.update(LEX_ATTRS)
 
     tokenizer_exceptions = update_exc(BASE_EXCEPTIONS, TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
     tag_map = dict(TAG_MAP)