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Originally Posted by Sashimister
It's mostly used in Western Japan, around Nagoya and further west. It isn't slang at all. In fact, it's a cool trace of Classical Japanese.
In Eastern Japan, you only hear it in one phrase: おはよう.  |
I hadn`t thought about the classical roots... That is kind of cool.
I use it all the time (as does my husband) with はよしな, はよせ, はよきな, はよくいな etc, so the 早くこいよ struck me as something everyone around here would probably say as はよこいよ/はよこいや.
You never know something is dialectal until you go somewhere else and no one else says it...