I can’t do it deliberately either. I just try to say “asterisk,” and too many "sk"s come out.
A natural, unrehearsed pronunciation from me comes out “aster-rick”. 
Accordingly, I voted “Other”.
In deliberate, careful speech: “aster-risk”.
That’s a good one. I often have to take calls with shaky audio quality and I’ve been using hyphen instead of dash for a while. I occasionally have to refer to colon (
and I wish there was a similar alternative. “That’s A colon Seven, repeating, Alpha O’Clock Seven,” just doesn’t work right.
It’s my ass to risk when I say asterisk.
This I get completely because I always catch myself picturing Asterix and then carefully pronouncing asterisk to avoid the confusion as lots of Americans don’t have a clue who Asterix is.
Just don’t confuse ‘Obelix’ and ‘Odalisque’.
In my mathematical speciality, *&^#@!?~ (all used as symbols) are often pronounced star, and, hat, double-cross,at,bang (or shriek), whimper, twiddle.
ASS-tə-rick
? → Hook
As my old high school Latin teach told us, there is a “risk” in pronouncing and spelling asterisk.
If the B mt, put :
If the B . putting :
Don’t put : over a - der.
You’d be an * it.
Ha,
The “#” sign is an octothorpe; and do you mean an “n-dash” or a “m-dash”?
Cite: I have some very nerdy print type designing friends.
A typical question asked in a social situation with them, in a bar or restaurant is “what is that font” and they usually get it right quite fast. I, being on web (backend) strickly use Fira-code for coding, I love the ligatures.
ETA, both Asterisk and Asterix in my colonial British accent sound very similar. I rely on context to make it clear if I am talking about a little star, or a little Gaul.
I did what you said in the OP, and what came out was either asterist or asteris’ with the S cut off where the K should be. I’m still thinking the K, so I’ll call it the latter.
If I say asterisks, then I do sometimes say asterix. But usually I get out the k and the sk, so it would be Asterisx.
“I regret that I have but one * for my country.” -Nathan Hale?
Obelix?
Nevermind.
I remember that quote from some book. They also advertised getting rid of ugly cockroaches forever, by selling sequins and glue.