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loath is not much rarer than loathe so it shouldn't be linted #3522

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I just committed a false positive when checking Python peps because loath was rewritten to loathe and I wasn't aware that loath is a thing. It's the adjective, whereas loathe is a verb.

Per Google ngram, loath is as common as loathe, so it shouldn't be a clear rewrite. It should simply be removed as it's not a clear typo nor is one much more common than the other.

See python/peps@ee430d6 where this happened live.

https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/blame/f0695997de58d3b9c790a940cbb94e14640bdc97/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_rare.txt#L162

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