A penny, a nickel, a dollar...
(or a dime). Right?
That was the chant I expected to hear from the street fundraiser yesterday in New York. Over and over again, she chanted, "A penny, a nickel, a dollar..." and then just when the meter demanded "a dime," she said, "a quarter."
It was wrong. All wrong.
And it worked. Precisely because the rhythm didn't work, the pitch did.