Yeah, it is (always?) "differs from", but "different" is, well, different. The Elements of Style uses your argument Raymott, but you have to take what that book says with care.
Yeah, it is (always?) "differs from", but "different" is, well, different. The Elements of Style uses your argument Raymott, but you have to take what that book says with care.
Yes, 'different' differs from 'differ'. But there's often a common usage of prepositions for the various parts of speech of a base word. If A is similar to B, there is a similarity of A to B. (adj, noun) If you separate A from B, A becomes separate from B. (verb, adj)
I also prefer "different from" because almost everyone agrees that at least that form is correct, no matter what they use themselves. That is a good teaching principle for ESL when you have a world-wide audience, such as here.