diff --git a/src/main/resources/esclient.xml b/src/main/resources/esclient.xml
index 1cb3e6b17..d48223087 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/esclient.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/esclient.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
 			<arg>"fess"</arg>
 			<arg>"el/protwords.txt"</arg>
 		</postConstruct>
+		<postConstruct name="addConfigFile">
+			<arg>"fess"</arg>
+			<arg>"en/protwords.txt"</arg>
+		</postConstruct>
 		<postConstruct name="addConfigFile">
 			<arg>"fess"</arg>
 			<arg>"en-ie/protwords.txt"</arg>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/fess_indices/fess.json b/src/main/resources/fess_indices/fess.json
index a692ca3a8..264bababd 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/fess_indices/fess.json
+++ b/src/main/resources/fess_indices/fess.json
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@
             "kind=>kinder"
           ]
         },
+        "english_keywords": {
+          "type":       "keyword_marker",
+          "keywords_path": "${fess.dictionary.path}en/protwords.txt"
+        },
         "finnish_stop": {
           "type":       "stop",
           "stopwords":  "_finnish_"
@@ -664,6 +668,7 @@
           "filter": [
             "truncate20_filter",
             "lowercase",
+            "english_keywords",
             "possessive_stemmer_en_filter"
           ]
         },