diff --git a/spacy/en/attrs.pxd b/spacy/en/attrs.pxd
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fca28a7b..000000000
--- a/spacy/en/attrs.pxd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-from ..attrs cimport FLAG14
-from ..attrs cimport FLAG15, FLAG16, FLAG17, FLAG18, FLAG19, FLAG20, FLAG21
-from ..attrs cimport FLAG22, FLAG23, FLAG24, FLAG25, FLAG26, FLAG27, FLAG28
-from ..attrs cimport FLAG29,  FLAG30, FLAG31, FLAG32
-from ..attrs cimport IS_ALPHA as _IS_ALPHA
-from ..attrs cimport IS_DIGIT as _IS_DIGIT
-from ..attrs cimport IS_ASCII as _IS_ASCII
-from ..attrs cimport IS_LOWER as _IS_LOWER
-from ..attrs cimport IS_PUNCT as _IS_PUNCT
-from ..attrs cimport IS_SPACE as _IS_SPACE
-from ..attrs cimport IS_TITLE as _IS_TITLE
-from ..attrs cimport IS_UPPER as _IS_UPPER
-from ..attrs cimport IS_OOV as _IS_OOV
-from ..attrs cimport LIKE_EMAIL as _LIKE_EMAIL
-from ..attrs cimport LIKE_URL as _LIKE_URL
-from ..attrs cimport LIKE_NUM as _LIKE_NUM
-from ..attrs cimport IS_STOP as _IS_STOP
-from ..attrs cimport ORTH as _ORTH
-from ..attrs cimport SHAPE as _SHAPE
-from ..attrs cimport LOWER as _LOWER
-from ..attrs cimport NORM as _NORM
-from ..attrs cimport CLUSTER as _CLUSTER
-from ..attrs cimport PREFIX as _PREFIX
-from ..attrs cimport SUFFIX as _SUFFIX
-from ..attrs cimport LEMMA as _LEMMA
-from ..attrs cimport POS as _POS
-from ..attrs cimport TAG as _TAG
-from ..attrs cimport DEP as _DEP
-from ..attrs cimport HEAD as _HEAD
-from ..attrs cimport ENT_IOB as _ENT_IOB
-from ..attrs cimport ENT_TYPE as _ENT_TYPE
-from ..attrs cimport SPACY as _SPACY
-
-
-cpdef enum:
-    IS_ALPHA = _IS_ALPHA
-    IS_ASCII = _IS_ASCII
-    IS_DIGIT = _IS_DIGIT
-    IS_LOWER = _IS_LOWER
-    IS_PUNCT = _IS_PUNCT
-    IS_SPACE = _IS_SPACE
-    IS_TITLE = _IS_TITLE
-    IS_UPPER = _IS_UPPER
-    LIKE_URL = _LIKE_URL
-    LIKE_NUM = _LIKE_NUM
-    LIKE_EMAIL = _LIKE_EMAIL
-    IS_STOP = _IS_STOP
-    IS_OOV = _IS_OOV
- 
-    ORTH = _ORTH
-    SHAPE = _SHAPE
-    LOWER = _LOWER
-    NORM = _NORM
-    PREFIX = _PREFIX
-    SUFFIX = _SUFFIX
-    CLUSTER = _CLUSTER
-    LEMMA = _LEMMA
-    POS = _POS
-    TAG = _TAG
-    DEP = _DEP
-    ENT_IOB = _ENT_IOB
-    ENT_TYPE = _ENT_TYPE
-    HEAD = _HEAD
-    SPACY = _SPACY
diff --git a/spacy/en/attrs.pyx b/spacy/en/attrs.pyx
deleted file mode 100644
index ff58559f6..000000000
--- a/spacy/en/attrs.pyx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# cython: embedsignature=True
-from ..orth cimport is_alpha, is_ascii, is_digit, is_lower, is_punct, is_space
-from ..orth cimport is_title, is_upper, like_url, like_number, like_email
-from ..typedefs cimport flags_t
-
-
-def get_flags(unicode string, is_oov=False):
-    cdef flags_t flags = 0
-    flags |= is_oov << IS_OOV
-    flags |= is_alpha(string) << IS_ALPHA
-    flags |= is_ascii(string) << IS_ASCII
-    flags |= is_digit(string) << IS_DIGIT
-    flags |= is_lower(string) << IS_LOWER
-    flags |= is_punct(string) << IS_PUNCT
-    flags |= is_space(string) << IS_SPACE
-    flags |= is_title(string) << IS_TITLE
-    flags |= is_upper(string) << IS_UPPER
-    flags |= like_url(string) << LIKE_URL
-    flags |= like_number(string) << LIKE_NUM
-    flags |= like_email(string) << LIKE_EMAIL
-    return flags