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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.
+Common consensus has it as a bastardisation of McKay, 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.
 So "the real McCoy" wasn't a McCoy at all. Come in Alannis Morissette - that ''is'' ironic.