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.
EDITED: 22 Dec 2006 17:32 by SPINNING_PLATES