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-{{pe}}Disappointingly, this expression does not derive from a ''Star Trek'' episode in which they cloned the starship's doctor. In fact it is a bastardisation, surviving from anonymous, over-apostrophised Glaswegian poem ''The De'il's Hallowe' en'', which calls out "A drappie o' the real MacKay". McKay, we suppose was some kind of whiskey.
+{{pe}}Disappointingly, this expression does not derive from a ''Star Trek'' episode in which they cloned the starship’s doctor.
-So "the real McCoy" wasn't a McCoy at all. Come in Alannis Morissette - that ''is'' ironic.
+Common consensus has it, instead, as a bastardisation of ''McKay'', surviving from anonymous, over-apostrophied Glaswegian poem ''The De’il’s Hallowe’en'', which calls out “A drappie o’ the real MacKay”.
+McKay, we suppose, was some kind of Scotch whisky; a drappie something like a “wee dram”, so to say.
+So “the real McCoy” wasn’t a McCoy ''at all''. Come in Alannis Morissette - that ''is'' ironic.
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 *[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_real_McCoy Wikipedia on the topic]