The question is not “how should you pronounce it”? It’s “Don’t go to look it up. Don’t think about it. How does it actually come out, when you open your mouth and say the word, right now”?
- -isk
- -ix
- Other (please describe)
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I know that it’s wrong, but I immediately pronounced it -ix, because I mixed it up it with Asterix the Gaul. I have spoken the word “Asterix” thousands of times in my life, but rarely “asterisk”.
The question I pose myself is not so much whether it is pronounced -ix or isk (of course it is -ysq!), but rather which syllable is stressed. French: as-TE-risque (where the “ue” at the end is silent), Spanish and Italian: as-te-RIS-co (where the “o” isn’t), but for English I would choose AS-te-risk. And for German, Sternchen 
I say ‘star’.
Mine comes out more like “Asterisksk”.
Much like during the plague of 2020 we’d make sure we brought masksks when going out.
Evading the question, your honor.
I say “ick”
As do I. I wonder if it’s a regional thing. I grew up on the west coast of the US.
I pronounce it as if I was discussing flower danger.
I pronounce it as written, “as-te-risk” but the multiple “S” noises make it sound a bit like Parseltongue.
ASS-trisk.
Splat.
I had to learn and memorize any number of symbolic coding ‘phrases’ that used punctuation marks, and then communicate them verbally often too. Asterick → Star, Exlamation Point-> Bang, Number Sign (Pound Sign, Hash) → Pound, Hyphen → Dash, tried to keep them short except oddly I ended up with Carat → Up Arrow. Outside of coding I do stick to the formal names though.
this is me as well
“What is John Jacob’s business venture”
Little Mary donned her skates
Upon thin ice to frisk;
Wasn’t she a silly girl
Her little * !
[ETA: not original to me! No idea where I first heard or saw it.]
This.
We used to call that one ‘hat’
Wow. I’ve never heard of that idea, I doubt I’ve ever heard anyone say it that way, and I’m not sure my face could make that noise even deliberately.
That’s fairly common, along with just ‘carat’. I’m pretty sure I heard someone else saying ‘up-arrow’ when spelling out some code ages ago and it got imprinted in my brain that way.