Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[mklotz]

Well many times monks were the brewers, vinters and distillers, so maybe the names weren't so obscure to them; or originated as some sort of in-joke. some cursory googling does not turn up and definitive information on the origins...quite possibly the originators didn't remember why they called them that the next morning :-)

Maybe they used the kings' names as a sort of code so they could talk openly in front of the bishop...

Yeah, last night was a real Nebuchadnezzar of a night!

Nah, the bishop was probably the biggest souse of them all.