diff --git a/lib/twitter_ebooks/nlp.rb b/lib/twitter_ebooks/nlp.rb
index 3fb9ea3..f971f0c 100644
--- a/lib/twitter_ebooks/nlp.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter_ebooks/nlp.rb
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ module Ebooks
     # to be using it all of the time
 
     # Lazily loads an array of stopwords
-    # Stopwords are common English words that should often be ignored
+    # Stopwords are common words that should often be ignored
     # @return [Array<String>]
     def self.stopwords
-      @stopwords ||= File.read(File.join(DATA_PATH, 'stopwords.txt')).split
+      @stopwords ||= File.exists?('stopwords.txt') ? File.read('stopwords.txt').split : []
     end
 
     # Lazily loads an array of known English nouns
diff --git a/data/stopwords.txt b/skeleton/stopwords.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from data/stopwords.txt
rename to skeleton/stopwords.txt