"associated with" vs "associated to"

Ms Google gives me:

267,000,000 English pages for " with"
10,600,000 English pages for " to".

Still, to sounds odd to me; I would call to a poor cousin to with. I see no nuances of difference myself.

Mister MicawberMs Google gives me:

267,000,000 English pages for "http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.answers.com/associated%26r%3D67 with"
10,600,000 English pages for " to".

I am an academic and frequently see "associated to" used in papers by non-native English speakers, especially Italian. I'm seeing it so much that I wondered if it might be acceptable, and did a google search and landed in this forum. It seems clear that it is not English, but who knows... it may become accepted at some future time...

And why not? English is having enough influence on other languages, so why shouldn't there be an effect in the opposite direction?

"Associated to" is used extensively by academics, but native and non-native speakers. There is some interesting collocation cross-overs going on with this. Compare:

1) compared with vs. compared to
2) connected with vs. connected to
3) associated with vs. associated to
4) married with* vs. married to
5) living with vs. living to*
6) contrasted with vs. contrasted to

I agree with Anonymous #296250: I work as a writer and editor in an environment populated with native French speakers who write first drafts of technical documents in English. I see "this thing ASSOCIATES TO that thing" with great regularity, but it remains an error in translating "à". It has become so common in technical documents that it is generally accepted, but "ASSOCIATE WITH" is the correc

"associated to" is wrong.

But more wrong, in my opinion, is to check the frequency of pages in Google when deciding about correctness of English language, or any other language.

Today, when most articles in science and learning are required in English, and when every one can use his/her personal computer to type-in (and so many illiterate editoring staff around...), mistakes of

associated to implies direct correlation whereas associated with is more generic

" We are entering a new era, when illiterate and educated go hand in hand..."

This idea is really impressive

Associated to, tends to be British.
Associated with, more American.