Hundertwasser cupola day: golden glide down Whangārei harbour and the one thing everyone has got wrong

It turns out the golden cupola, being boated into Whangārei Town Basin this morning, is pronounced in a completely different way.

University of Auckland professor of Italian Bernadette Luciano confirmed it should be pronounced "koo-po-la".

"In Italian a "u" is always an "o" sound," she explained.