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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (55366)	8/29/2000 1:37:39 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 71178

More on "The Real McCoy" (who may have actually been "The Real Mackay"): Q. From Ana Elisa Leiderman: "Could you please tell me how the expression "the real McCoy" originated?". A. I wish I could. There are at least half a dozen theories about which of the myriad McCoys of America at the end of the nineteenth century is the genuinely real McCoy. Was it, as Alistair Cooke argued, a famous cattle baron? Or was it perhaps Elijah McCoy,who invented a machine to lubricate the moving parts of a railway locomotive? The broad consensus seems to be that it was Kid McCoy, the former welterweight boxing champion of the 1890s. He had so many imitators, taking his name in boxing booths in small towns throughout the country, that it seems he had eventually to bill himself as Kid "The Real" McCoy, and the phrase stuck. Now let me enter a caveat: The Oxford English Dictionary records this from a letter written by the author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883: "He's the real Mackay". It's not only in a different spelling, but a decade before Kid McCoy became famous. So the debate must continue. quinion.com