diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
index a2263fa4d0..9ca5a388f8 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 
-require 'active_support/inflector/inflections'
 require 'active_support/inflections'
 
 module ActiveSupport