Return of the minimal pairs

[petegray]

>> - in NZ, there is no schwa.  The vowel in "bit" is used instead.  So there
>> is no problem whatever with h before schwa - it just doesn't occur.

> You've got it back-to-front. The vowel in 'bit' is a schwa over there. I'm
> an Aussie, ...

It only sounds like that to an Aussie!   I don't have the dialect books at
hand, but I think I stand in lustrous company on this one.   (On the other
hand, even I have been known to err...)

Peter