Sloths are slow.

Sloth, meaning laziness, is also one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christianity.

Unsurprisingly enough, the sin came first, and the animal was named after it, because it seems so lazy. They’re not actually lazy of course, just slow. Though some individual sloths probably are lazy, but it’d obviously be unfair to tar them all with the same brush.

It’s a funny word, sloth, and not one we really use beyond these two contexts. Where does it come from?

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