"Mayhap"

[Shurrikhan]

It was a superb example, you just couldn't absorb (or process) it.

You've complained about a phrase being spelled as it has been more often, as is still more often, spelled outside of informal writing or explicitly in depicting dialogue -- preferring instead an informal contraction only seen since 1884 that is, itself, not used across all Englishes (unlike the more formal version). Your sole reason given so far for your horror at this spelling choice has been that they're pronounced the same.

It's text. Expect variance in spelling, just as with Gaol (still pronounced identically to "Jail") or the like, to be used for flavor. Spelling is a feature of text, after all, manipulable for story-telling purposes by situating characters and cultures. If it's a balance between using everything at their disposal and some players having to occasionally pause (in vexation, apparently, for some) or type a word into Google, well, that's their balance to set, regardless of whether you favor where they've set it.

I understand it has hurt your dear sensibilities. But you, alone, also might not be the target audience.

Which is to say: I don't really require the benefit of the doubt from someone cut from... your particular - and very prosaic - cloth.

Fair enough. In the future, if you can't even recognize English letters while arguing around past spellings, I'll just assume you have no idea what you're talking about instead of your having merely been concise. I'll admit, I made the wrong gamble here.