I sit bright yellow in the center of an Easter egg, but swap my very first letter for the tenth letter of the alphabet, and I become something funny you say to make people laugh. What was I at first?
Yolk
This is a letter-substitution wordplay riddle centered on the yellow interior of an egg, the 'yolk.' Replacing the letter Y with J, which is the tenth letter of the English alphabet, transforms the word into 'joke.'
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