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{{pe}}Disappointingly, this expression does not derive from a ''Star Trek'' episode in which they cloned the | {{pe}}Disappointingly, this expression does not derive from a ''Star Trek'' episode in which they cloned the starship’s doctor. | ||
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”. | 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”. | ||
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McKay, we suppose, was some kind of Scotch whisky; a drappie something like a “wee dram”, so to say. | McKay, we suppose, was some kind of Scotch whisky; a drappie something like a “wee dram”, so to say. | ||
So | 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] | *[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_real_McCoy Wikipedia on the topic] | ||