Less Restrictive Word Censorship

[majoreyeswater]

I hope someone can help on the censorship/word replacement, have looked through the older threads, but most seem to deal with complete word replacement using variable replacement (which I am a tad nervous about) or simply changing the censorship characters...

What I'd like is a censorship feature, that censors pre-defined words, but not so that you can't actually tell what they are.

For instance if someone typed:

Manchester

what I'd like to see is

M********r



This way, people can identify the intent in the post, but won't suffer from the trauma of seeing the words manchester (replace with any suitable offensive word - although Manchester is pretty bad where I come from... )

ANy help would be appreciated.