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Yes, we have measuring devices that measure exactly one cup. It's used a lot in baking, particularly. We also have liters, teaspoons, tablespoons, and very rarely do I, at the very least, see the use of fluid ounces, but bottles of liquids, like pop (soda we call pop here in the Midwest US; although those in other areas of the US might call them soda pops, soda, or even just cokes; aka. colas), will have the fluid ounces alongside the liters. I rarely use pints as well, but I think milk and egg nog often come in pints, and probably alcoholic beverages too (I don't drink alcohol, so I wouldn't know).
I get that there's a standard deciliter, but why? A cup is perfectly fine. ;) Do people outside the US even have a measuring device for deciliters? I have a measuring cup with a scale up the side that can fit up to 2 cups in the measuring cup. Some measuring cups can fit 3 or more cups. Oh, and all of our measuring cups come with cup markers as well as liter markers and ounce markers at the same time.
What I find really odd is the mention that one cup matches your biggest mug. Do y'all use cups smaller than teacups everywhere there? One cup is only sometimes like 25% larger than a standard teacup (which can be from 6-8 US ounces; 8 ounces being one cup), and our "mugs", which are still called cups as well as mugs, can be from 1 to 2 cups. Even a standard glass *cup* can be up to 1.5 cups. In fact, UK cups in the measurement sense are 10 mL bigger than US cups.
Mug cups, glass cups, teacups, plastic cups, they're all just different liquid containers with an open top and slender width, and only sometimes a handle.
Teacups: 6 to 8 ounces, 0.75 to 1 cups (177.441 to 236.588 mL)
Coffee cups/mugs: 12 to 16 ounces, 1.5 to 2 cups (354.882 to 473.176 mL)
Glass cups: 8 to 12 ounces, 1 to 1.5 cups (177.441 to 354.882 mL)
Pop/Soda can: 12 ounces, 1.5 cups (354.882 mL)
Anyways, a mug is really just referring to the form and material of the cup, not the size. Many mugs hold about the same amount as a glass cup. Some mugs can hold larger amounts. Apparently some people even refer to 2 ounce glass cups as mugs.
Also, yeah, our pints are 20% smaller than imperial pints, according to what I'm reading online, so half a pint is in fact not huge at all. An American pint is only 16 US fluid ounces, which is 2 cups. US fluid ounces are also 4% larger than fluid ounces in the UK, apparently.
1 US pint = 473.18 mL = 0.83267 imperial pints
1 US fluid ounce = 29.5735 mL = 1.04084 imperial fluid ounce
1 US tablespoon = 0.5 US fluid ounces = 14.7868 mL = 0.832674 imperial tablespoon
1 US teaspoon = 0.166667 US fluid ounces = 4.92892 mL = 0.832674 imperial teaspoon
The US doesn't use the imperial system, we just use our own system that have some of the same names as the imperial system, probably due to the British ravaging the Americas and forming colonies like usual. Our ounces are slightly bigger by 4% compared to UK imperial, everything else is slightly smaller.
NOTE: All ounces, cups, and pints in this post refer to US fluid ounces, US cups, and US pints, not imperial UK measurements, unless explicitly stated otherwise.