See, I pronounce it deh-fin-at-lee so that's why my spelling of it goes wrong occasionally. (A lot of the time I do check the spelling and correct it but it's one of those words where the correct spelling looks odd )
Anyway, where are the pics?
I don't mean to be prescriptivist*, but that kind of pedantic ass-hat would be wrong. The last vowel sound should be (and I suspect is, in both of your accents) a schwa. Which is precisely why so many people have a tough time spelling it: the schwa isn't particularly associated with any character of the alphabet.
*A lie, actually, I certainly do.
Excellent. Someone who knows what they're talking about, I assume? Which I freely admit is more than I can say. I just know how to spell the word.
As for how to pronounce it, I've never studied phonetics, so I expect that you are entirely right and that the sound is a "schwa". Could you give an example or two of other instances of words that use that sound so I could compare my pronunciation of those syllables to "definite"?
I suppose I was trying to say that it doesn't sound like "it" but didn't know how to correctly describe the sound, due to my lack of phonetics knowledge. It's something I'd like to know more about though.