From 87bf205b82ce2bec7730688ab934b7c324401a6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <matthew@honnibal.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:26:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix open apostrophe bug

---
 spacy/en.pyx | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/en.pyx b/spacy/en.pyx
index 35204a3df..bbcfaf119 100644
--- a/spacy/en.pyx
+++ b/spacy/en.pyx
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ cdef class English(spacy.Language):
 cdef bint is_punct(unicode word, size_t i, size_t length):
     # Don't count appostrophes as punct if the next char is a letter
     if word[i] == "'" and i < (length - 1) and word[i+1].isalpha():
-        return False
+        # ...Unless we're at 0
+        return i == 0
     # Don't count commas as punct if the next char is a number
     if word[i] == "," and i < (length - 1) and word[i+1].isdigit():
         return False