west和western用法的区别，西方风格可以用west style吗

west和western用法的区别，西方风格可以用west style吗

这个问题美国人也迷糊：
This is a good topic. Here in the US you will find very consistent ways that people refer to certain geographic areas:

Its always "SOUTH Flordia", almost never "Southern Florida"
in every day conversation.

But you would NEVER hear "South California" Its always "Southern California" with no exception. I have no idea why.

Whats even stranger is now that I think about it. Florida is "south florida" yet its also "NORTHERN Florida" not "north florida", explain that!

Texas is simply, WEST Texas, North Texas etc and very rarely western, eastern, northern

New York(the state) is ALWAYS called "Up-state New York" and as far as I know, almost never "Northern New York" in every day conversation. Again no idea why.

We can talk about the west bank of the river, or the west wind, but we don't use west as an adjective describing a style of cooking.
所以，一般涉及到人的习惯什么，要用western。我们不能说 west style，只能说 western style

或许可以。