diff --git a/spacy/en/__init__.py b/spacy/en/__init__.py
index 8979cc8fb..623585f7d 100644
--- a/spacy/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/en/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from ..attrs import LANG
 
 from ..language_data import update_exc
 from ..language_data import strings_to_exc
+from ..language_data import expand_exc
 from ..language_data import EMOTICONS
 
 from .language_data import ORTH_ONLY
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ STOP_WORDS = set(language_data.STOP_WORDS)
 update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, strings_to_exc(EMOTICONS))
 update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, strings_to_exc(ORTH_ONLY))
 update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, get_time_exc(range(1, 12 + 1)))
+update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, expand_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, "'", "’"))
 
 
 class English(Language):