Learn English – Difference between “daily” and “every day”

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When can I say "I use this daily" or "I use this every day"? What about hourly?

Is it correct to say "I will send this hourly"? It seems incorrect, to me.

Best Answer

Daily, hourly, yearly and the like all started as adjectives, but centuries of use license their use as adverbs, too.

OKI will update this report hourly.

This makes some people uncomfortable, however; so you would probably do better to use them only as adjectives and employ the every construction when you want an adverbial:

OKI will update this report every hour.

What you will often see those uncomfortable people substituting is this construction:

?!I will update this report on an hourly basis.

I implore you not to emulate this pompous and awkward workaround.