The word "pylons" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to refer to tall structures that support overhead wires, such as those used in electrical transmission or in construction.
Example: "The pylons along the highway were painted bright orange for visibility."
Alternatives: "Towers" or "Supports".
But still the pylons came – from the first erected near Edinburgh to the 90,000 that now stand across the land.
A letter to the Times the following year raised vociferous complaint about plans to erect pylons across the Sussex Downs and was signed by figures such as John Maynard Keynes and Rudyard Kipling.
When the first electricity pylons arrived on our landscape in 1928, they too were met with objection and detraction.
In its winter outlook, the operator of pipes and pylons said the electricity margin – the difference between expected peak demand and available supply – has fallen to 4.1%, from a restated 5.9% last year, because of planned generator closures, breakdowns and delays to new plants.
Aigburth comes up on you unexpectedly, with no pylons to house floodlights giving away its location, no little signs pointing the way to the car parks, no tacky stands selling club favours.
Our pylons, like our roads and railways, our canals and our shipyards, show our presence here; they form part of our history as much as our cathedrals and our stately homes.
The agricultural landscape revealed sunflower fields, irrigation ditches, and a line of pylons.
Flying would be good, but it comes with its own set of problems – electrical pylons and such.
Tribute was paid to the Martin Place siege victims Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson in the form of a floral display on the pylons of the bridge.
"It's flat here," he says, "and the impact is greater than electricity pylons – pylons are stationary, they don't move, they're transparent, they don't have lights on to warn aeroplanes; you can't see them.
To appease NIMBYs (those who reflexively say "not in my backyard") some of the lines may have to be buried, at further great expense: perhaps 25 times the cost of stringing the cables on pylons.
