diff --git a/spacy/lang/de/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/de/__init__.py
index 0a161e80e..b8a7580a0 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/de/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/de/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class GermanDefaults(Language.Defaults):
     lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
     lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'de'
     lex_attr_getters[NORM] = add_lookups(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters[NORM],
-                                         BASE_NORMS, NORM_EXCEPTIONS)
+                                         NORM_EXCEPTIONS, BASE_NORMS)
 
     tokenizer_exceptions = update_exc(BASE_EXCEPTIONS, TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
     tag_map = dict(TAG_MAP)
diff --git a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
index 3f422b834..a6c216b43 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/en/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class EnglishDefaults(Language.Defaults):
     lex_attr_getters = dict(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters)
     lex_attr_getters[LANG] = lambda text: 'en'
     lex_attr_getters[NORM] = add_lookups(Language.Defaults.lex_attr_getters[NORM],
-                                         BASE_NORMS, NORM_EXCEPTIONS)
+                                         NORM_EXCEPTIONS, BASE_NORMS)
     lex_attr_getters.update(LEX_ATTRS)
 
     tokenizer_exceptions = update_exc(BASE_EXCEPTIONS, TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)