it is ahsterisk Bill, and the trouble with euphemisms is the euphemism becomes a " forbidden word" too take the rhyming slang "he has lost his Aris ( lost his nerve)" this is a rhyme for Bottle ( Aris =Aristotle=Bottle and Glass= arse) meaning he is so scared he has lost control of his sphincter but Aris is a rhyme for a RHYME because bottle had become known as a vulgarism!!!