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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 76260, member: 23"]According to Wikipedia:</p><p>The phrase "The real McCoy" may be a corruption of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" rel="nofollow">Scots</a> "The real MacKay", first recorded in 1856 as: "A drappie o' the real MacKay," (A drop of the real MacKay). This appeared in a poem <i>Deil's Hallowe'en</i> published in Glasgow and is widely accepted as the phrase's origin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 76260, member: 23"]According to Wikipedia: The phrase "The real McCoy" may be a corruption of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language']Scots[/URL] "The real MacKay", first recorded in 1856 as: "A drappie o' the real MacKay," (A drop of the real MacKay). This appeared in a poem [I]Deil's Hallowe'en[/I] published in Glasgow and is widely accepted as the phrase's origin[/QUOTE]
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