Sun of Sicily

The advantage of travelling in a place such as Sicily, is that linguitically speaking (not sure about this word, but anyway), the word Sicily is an alliteration by itself. And as everyone know that the limits of the alliteration are basically where the speech starts to be heavy, I won't give you any more example to make my point. The title should be enough (check the French if you want, it is even worse...)

Anyway, the little story behind that happened when I was walking in the rather tiny streets of the beautiful city of Palerme.

After one week getting lost in translation between French, Italian and English, my travel companion named the locals at some point as palermitanese*. I asked him more information about that word I never heard about and that I thought was sounding... A bit wrong actually. So he told me that as in Italian, they were named Palermitani, he just assumed that the French word for it was probably really similar... Because indeed, on this respct, the French language is a real sloth... And most of the time borrow words of the language involved to make up her own ... So with no dictionnary around... We had to make it up by our good selves so the inhabitants have been called by different names during the weekend we spent over there.

Back amongst the londoners (no doubt about their name), no bloody way to find the solution... And as I always said, the Wikipedia was not such a reliable source regarding linguistic matters... It just says that the word is Palermitani, whatever language you pick... So... Hmmm.
So to sort out the problem, I reckon that as long as noone will give me the solution, I will stick to Palmitants, logical association of the name of the city with the end of the word inhabitant (applicable to all cities in which some unidentified people live... :).

*This conversation was in French

"We don't live in a country, we live in a language." - Emil Michel Cioran