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Here in Canada we refer to "traffic cones" as pylons. As someone living in London, Ontario, the first couple paragraphs of the OP was particularly funny to read

Here in Canada we refer to "traffic cones" as pylons. As someone living in London, Ontario, the first couple paragraphs of the OP was particularly funny to read; some sentences could be changed very minimally and apply all the same - "yet in a few places pylons are an intrinsic part of the landscape, like here along the edge of t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶o̶y̶a̶l̶ ̶D̶o̶c̶k̶s̶ almost every road, due to construction."

ThinkingGuy 4y ago
My first reaction to the article was "We don't really use the word 'pylon' to describe these things, at least not here in the southern United States," though the term makes sense and doesn't sound strange to me at all. But now I'm struggling to thing of what term I personally would use, and honestly, I'm having difficulty. "electrical tower?" "transmission tower?"
- mikestew 4y ago
  "High tension line towers", or...hmm, I guess I don't know what the common usage would be in the U. S., southern or otherwise. And we live a block from a local Redmond, WA trail that follows the line of...high tension towers for miles in either direction. But between my spouse and me, if we need to refer to them, we just call them "towers". "Pylons" are short little things, such as traffic cones (to borrow an example from another commenter).