Corrected entry: When Jack first sails into Port Royal, he passes a gallows with three corpses and an sign that says "Pirates be Ye warned". "Ye" is not an old way of writing "you", but the old form of "the", the y-looking character being derived from the rune for the "th"-sound.
Sol Parker
Corrected entry: Townspeople in Port Royal have shoes fastened by Velcro which was not invented until the mid-1900s.
Correction: The townspeople have shoes fastened with either laces or buckles.
Corrected entry: In the scene after the two boats fight against each other, the boat blows up on one side. When Will gets onto the pirate boat, he gets on the other side. It would have taken Will much longer to swim to the pirate boat, and climb up the other side.
Correction: An indefinite amount of time passes between these happenings, otherwise it would be true that Will would have no time to swim that far. Remember, the Black Pearl had to get that far away too.
Corrected entry: When the crew of the Black Pearl are taking over the boat outside their cave, and one of the crew member's arm is ripped off, it is still in the bone form, even when it is in the cabin of the ship where moonlight cannot reach.
Correction: This has been corrected before, the entire cabin is lit by ambient moonlight.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Captain Barbosa is explaining to Elizabeth about the curse he pours white wine into his glass. After he goes on to the dock and drinks the wine, the wine we see dripping through his skeleton is red.
Correction: He grabs a different wine bottle.
Corrected entry: When Barbosa is outside on the deck talking to Elizabeth, his hat is shading his forehead and his eyes from the moonlight, so they should be shown as normal human flesh, not skeleton.
Correction: His hat and the rest of his clothes are part of the curse as they are all shown rotting.
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Correction: Assuming this movie takes place sometime later than the sixteen hundreds, the use of the word "ye" was used for the modern "you". For reference, check the King James Version of the Bible, written 400 years ago, obviously uses "ye" for "you". While possible uses of the word further back in history may have been different, the language has changed since the days of runes.
Sol Parker