Outside of England, "can" meaning 'able to' remains , whereas the noun "can" 'container' or the verb "can" 'to put into a container' is ; this is similar to the situation found in [/æ/ raising æ-tensing] in some varieties of American English. A common minimal pair for modern RP speakers is "band" and "banned" . Australian speakers who use ‘span’ as the past tense of ‘spin’ also have a minimal pair between longer (meaning width or the transitive verb with a river or divide) and , the past tense of ‘spin’ (). Other minimal pairs found in Australian English include ‘Manning’ (the surname) and ‘manning’ (the present participle and gerund of the verb ‘to man’) as well as 'planet' versus 'plan it' .