"Mayhap"

[TeraRamis]

Opposite side of the coin: They've lost nothing to be accurate to the period they wish to capture, wherein the two words haven't yet been contracted among the majority of local speakers.

But what period? And accurate in what way? This isn't old English we're speaking. If that were true, the first thing that would need to change is that all our 's' letters would need to be altered to 'f' - that's something that only really happened at the beginning of the 19th Century.